gorm

參見：Gorm

英語

詞源1

gaum的變體 (源自中古英語 gome ← 古諾爾斯語 gaumr；對比哥特語 𐌲𐌰𐌿𐌼𐌾𐌰𐌽 (gaumjan，“觀察”))。

其他寫法

• gawm (英國方言)

動詞

gorm (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 gorms，現在分詞 gorming，簡單過去時和過去分詞 gormed)

1. 〈方〉 瞪，盯
   • 1922, Elinor Mordaunt, Laura Creichton, page 110:

     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.

   • 1901, New Outlook, volume 67, page 408:

     "Tell Sannah to bring some coffee," said the young woman to a diminutive Kaffir boy, who stood gorming at us with round black eyes.

   • 1990，Jean Ure，Play Nimrod for him, →ISBN，頁 96:

     They would stand in silence, mindlessly gorming at each other, […]

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   • 2005, Lynne Truss, The Lynne Truss Treasury: Columns and Three Comic Novels ISBN 1101218266:

     In particular, we like to emphasize that, far from wasting our childhoods (not to mention adulthoods) mindlessly gorming at The Virginian and The Avengers, we spent those couch-potato years in rigorous preparation for our chosen career.

相關詞彙

• goam (“看見，認得”)
• gaum (“理解，考慮”)

詞源2

gaum的變體 (參見gum)。

動詞

gorm (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 gorms，現在分詞 gorming，簡單過去時和過去分詞 gormed)

1. gaum的另一種寫法 （弄髒）
   • 1884, Margaret Elizabeth Majendie, Out of their element, page 70:

     'It is quite ruined.'

     'How did she do it? What a pity!'

     'With paint—assisting in the painting of a garden-gate. She told me the pleasure of "gorming" it on was too irresistible to be resisted; and the poor little new gown in done for.'

   • 1909, Augusta Kortrecht, The Widow Mary, in Good Housekeeping, volume 48, page 182:

     "It was in a little sprinkler bottle, an' I gormed it onto my vittles good an' thick. Lordy, Lordy, an' now I got to die!"

參考資料

• Bennett Wood Green, Word-book of Virginia Folk-speech (1912), page 202:

  Gorm, v. To smear, as with anything sticky. When a child has smeared its face with something soft and sticky, they say: "Look how you have gormed your face."

詞源3

源自 gormandize/gormandise。

動詞

gorm (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 gorms，現在分詞 gorming，簡單過去時和過去分詞 gormed)

1. 〈口〉〈罕〉 狼吞虎嚥
   • 1885 James Johonnot, Neighbors with Claws and Hoofs, and Their Kin, page 105:

     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, […]

   • 1920, Outdoor Recreation: The Magazine that Brings the Outdoors In:

     […] an itinerant bruin and with naught on his hands but time and an appetite, [to] wander from ravine to ravine and gorm down this delectable fruit.

   • 1980, Michael G. Karni, Finnish Americana, page 5:

     As Luohi said later, "He gormed it. Nay, he didn't eat it. He gormed it, the pig."

詞源4

有人認為與gormless 和/或 gorming有關，也有人認為與gorm (“弄髒”)有關 (gum)。^[1]

其他寫法

• gaum

動詞

gorm (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 gorms，現在分詞 gorming，簡單過去時和過去分詞 gormed)

1. 〈方〉(美國南部、阿巴拉契亞、新英格蘭、多與‘up’連用) 弄亂
   • 1910, English Mechanic and World of Science, volume 91, page 273:

     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 […]

   • 2008，Christine Blevins，Midwife of the Blue Ridge, →ISBN，頁 133:

     "Truth is, I've gormed it all up, Alistair. When it comes t' women — nice women anyway — I'm as caw-handed and cork-brained as any pimply boy."

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