Meaning of gorm | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To gawk; to stare or gape.
   UK, US, dialectal
2. To devour; to wolf down (food).
   colloquial, rare
3. To make a mess of.
   Appalachia, New-England, Southern-US, dialectal, often

Examples

“Passing through St. George's Square, Lupus Street, Chichester Street, he scarcely saw⟳ a soul; then, quite suddenly, he struck a dense crowd, kept back by the police, standing gorming at a great jagged hole in a high blank wall, a glimpse, the merest glimpse of more broken walls, shattered chimneys.”

“"Tell⟳ Sannah to bring⟳ some coffee," said the young woman to a diminutive Kaffir boy, who stood gorming at us with round black eyes.”

“They would stand⟳ in silence, mindlessly gorming at each other, […]”

“In particular, we like⟳ to emphasize that, far from wasting our childhoods (not to mention⟳ adulthoods) mindlessly gorming at The Virginian and The Avengers, we spent those couch-potato years in rigorous preparation for our chosen career.”

“'It is quite ruined.' 'How did she do it? What a pity!' 'With paint⟳—assisting in the painting of a garden-gate. She told me the pleasure of "gorming" it on was too irresistible to be resisted; and the poor little new gown in done for.'”

“"It was in a little sprinkler bottle, an' I gormed it onto my vittles good an' thick. Lordy, Lordy, an' now I got to die⟳!"”

“For quotations using this term, see⟳ Citations:gorm.”

“The bear⟳ came up to the berries and stopped. Not accustomed to eat⟳ out of a pail, he tipped it over, and nosed about the fruit "gorming" it down, mixed with leaves and dirt, […]”

“[…] an itinerant bruin and with naught on his hands but time and an appetite, [to] wander⟳ from ravine to ravine and gorm down this delectable fruit.”

“As Luohi said later, "He gormed it. Nay, he didn't eat⟳ it. He gormed it, the pig."”

“I find⟳ the cheap shilling self-filling pen advertised in these pages excellent value—quite equal to that of fountain-pens I have⟳ paid ten times as much for. It is also durable. I am a careless person, and prefer⟳ to discard it when I have⟳ “gormed” it […]”

“"Truth is, I've gormed it all up, Alistair. When it comes t' women — nice women anyway — I'm as caw-handed and cork-brained as any pimply boy."”

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