Meaning of orming | Babel Free
/ˈɔːmɪŋ/Definitions
Talk and awkward
Examples
“Niver a baby had eyes, As sulking and ormin' as thine D.H. Lawrence (1903), Love Poems”
“Mrs. Goodall fairly hated the sound of correct English. She thee'd and tha'd her prospective daughter-in-law, and said, 'I'm none as orming as I look, seest ta.' Fanny did not think her prospective mother-in-law looked at all orming. England My England 261 (1922)”
“There are many adjectives in the Selston dialect which are lexically interesting, like "throng" [θrɔŋ] (busy) are well known in northern dialects; others, for instance "ormin" [ɔːmɪn] (large and ungainly) are not recorded in EDD as used outside Nottinghamshire. Jeremy G. Storr (1977), Survey of the Dialect of Selston in the Erewash Valley, page 255.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.