Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gomere

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: gomere
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A female gomer; a female hospital patient who is unpleasant to treat or who does not respond to treatment.

Derogatory; Slang

Example Sentences

"Ina Goober, whom I admitted six times last year. A gomer, or rather, the feminine, gomere."
""Did you buff that gomere?" "Sure thing, I buffed her, and they turfed her to urology, but she bounced back to me!""
"It was called the Rose Room because for some strange reason the four beds were always occupied by gomeres named Rose. In fact, one of them, my patient, was named Rose Budz."

Etymology

From gomer "an undesirable hospital patient", with French -e, by analogy to feminine nouns in French, such as cuisinière.

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: -e

Usage

Inflected Forms

gomeres (plural)

Questions

What does gomere mean?: A female gomer; a female hospital patient who is unpleasant to treat or who does not respond to treatment.
Where does gomere come from?: It is traced to French.

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