Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

garms

/ɡˈɑɹmz/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.47 in modern English

Syllables: garms
IPA: /ɡˈɑɹmz/

8

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

name

A surname from German.

Example Sentences

"Mr Godfrey elaborates: 'Unlike New York, where violence is operating on its own irrational plane, on he streets of London there are only two reasons for trouble: your "garms or your area."
"In internet rooms and computer mainframes, there's loads of emails about your mother's blue veins. Not the ones in her legs or the back of her arms, but the ones in her member hidden in her garms."
"garms - threads, clothes (London and the South-East): Garms is a term short for garments and, although dating back to Old London, is still in use by the capital's teenagers today. Garms that are buff and criss (cool and stylish, or rude) are of course the best (or nang)."

Etymology

From garments.

Origin

Source language: German

Word Breakdown

Root: Garms

Inflected Forms

Garmses (plural)

Rhymes With

arms farms alarms charms harms forearms armes

Questions

How do you pronounce garms?: The recorded pronunciation is /ɡˈɑɹmz/.
What does garms mean?: clothing
Where does garms come from?: It is traced to German.

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