Meaning of gormy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Awkward, clumsy, klutzy, ungainly.
   British, New-England, Northern-England, US, not-comparable
2. Alternative spelling of gaumy (“sticky, smeared with something sticky; grimy”).
   British, Southern-US, US, alt-of, alternative, not-comparable

Examples

“And not always with finesse — the Lombard clanked and churned, and a man who is like a regular Lombard may be a bit gormy and sometimes apply brute strength when he might do the work easier if he'd stop and think a little.”

“Kimball was never one to argue with a comrade's eyes and ears, not even those of a gormy jeezer like Connolly.”

“The Killian boy was carrying a chair, and making difficulties with it; he was what old-time Yankees would have called "a gormy lad."”

“Just the sort of place gormy Eugene would pick to hold a family get-together.”

“The first thing you have got to do is to wash them gormy 'ands [...]”

“When I bought my tamarinds I eat one or two and then discovered that I had left my handkerchief at home, my hands were a little gormy, so I washed them in Frog Pond.”

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