gormy
/ˈɡɔɹmi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "And not always with finesse — the Lombard clanked and churned, and a man who is like a regular Lombard may be a bit gormy and sometimes apply brute strength when he might do the work easier if he'd stop and think a little."
- "Kimball was never one to argue with a comrade's eyes and ears, not even those of a gormy jeezer like Connolly."
- "The Killian boy was carrying a chair, and making difficulties with it; he was what old-time Yankees would have called "a gormy lad.""
- "Just the sort of place gormy Eugene would pick to hold a family get-together."
- "The first thing you have got to do is to wash them gormy 'ands [...]"
- "When I bought my tamarinds I eat one or two and then discovered that I had left my handkerchief at home, my hands were a little gormy, so I washed them in Frog Pond."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɡɔɹmi/
- British English: /ˈɡɔːmi/