gawm
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative spelling of gom (foolish person).
Example Sentences
- ""E-y-e-s front ! Och, luk in front av ye, for the love o' marcy, an' don't be bigger gawms than y'are." Again he took up his parade before the squad."
- "The farmer would accuse his son of idleness; the son would retort that his father was a drunken gawm."
- "In twenty-wan years in this box I don't believe I've ever pulled down wan of those signal yokes without half-expecting a pint of stout to come out down below somewhere. And isn't it the right gawm I'd look if it did come."
- "In just about a month to-morrow morning we'll crunch the candy into the rug at every step, and all we touch will be gawmed up and sticky."
- "A nation cannot get anywhere if it has things gawmed up."
- ""Might as well be dead as all gawmed up with that fly paper stuff.""
Usage
- British usage