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gorming

出典:『Wiktionary』 (2017/04/20 13:28 UTC 版)

形容詞

gorming

1. (主に米国用法, dialectal, New England) Clumsy, lumbering, stupid.
   • 1894, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 73, page 771:
     He was a giant fellow, -— a "great gorming cutter,” Samantha Ann Millikeu called him; but if he had held up his head and straightened his broad shoulders, he would have been thought a man of splendid presence.
   • 1937, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 159, page 638:
     "Great, gorming thing," he announced, and removed himself rapidly from its vicinity.
   • 1966, The Yale Literary Magazine, volume 135, issue 1, page 47:
     A streak of lack, no get-up-and-go, always late in the tide, not sprawl enough to dig his potatoes, no faculty at all, a gump, a gawk, a gowk, a goop, a great gorming lummox. How the townsmen poured it on! But he wasn't like that, I swear.

同意語

• gormy

参照

• Sylvester Clark Gould, Notes and Queries and Historic Magazine (1892): In an old note-book of my own, kept in 1851, I find the entry, “gorming,” gawky, or awkward. Amesbury, Mass. Some twenty years ago I heard it from a man mending a road near Bethlehem, N. H., […]
• Robert Hendrickson, The Facts on File Dictionary of American Regionalisms (2000, ISBN 1438129920), page 232: gorming Used to describe a stupid, clumsy person or animal, or even an inanimate object that is in one's way. “Move aside, you great gorming lummox.”
• Dan L. Soucy, ‎Jeanne Mason, Salt and Pines: Tales from Bygone Maine (2011, ISBN 1609493680), page 60:
  from away—not from Maine.
  […]
  gorming/gormy/_gawmy_—awkward, clumsy, all hands and feet. “He's a gorming young one, and he'll grow up to be a ronching great man.”
• H. L. Mencken, American Language Supplement 2 (2012, ISBN 0307813444): gorming, clumsy, stupid

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