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gorms

gorms is the third-person singular simple present indicative of gorm.

Meaning of gorm

Verb (1)

gorm (third-person singular simple present gorms, present participle gorming, simple past and past participle gormed)

  1. (UK, US, dialectal) To gawk; to stare or gape.
    • 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.1922, Elinor Mordaunt, Laura Creichton, page 110

Verb (2)

gorm (third-person singular simple present gorms, present participle gorming, simple past and past participle gormed)

  1. (colloquial, rare) To devour; to wolf down (food).
    • 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, […]1885, James Johonnot, Neighbors with Claws and Hoofs, and Their Kin, page 105

Verb (3)

gorm (third-person singular simple present gorms, present participle gorming, simple past and past participle gormed)

  1. (Appalachia, New-England, Southern US, dialectal, often) To make a mess of.
    • 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 […]1910, English Mechanic and World of Science, volume 91, page 273

Questions about gorms

What is gorms the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Gorms is the third-person singular simple present indicative of gorm.

Words near gorms in the dictionary

  1. gormlessness
  2. Gormley
  3. Gormleys
  4. Gormogon
  5. Gormogons
  6. gorms
  7. gormy
  8. gorn
  9. Gornall
  10. Gornet
  11. Gornet-Cricov

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