English

Alternative forms

• gawming (chiefly UK, but also used in the US)

Adjective

gorming

1. (chiefly US, dialectal, New England) Clumsy, lumbering, stupid.
   • 1894, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 73, page 771:

     He was a giant fellow, -— a "great gorming cutter,” Samantha Ann Millikeu called him; but if he had held up his head and straightened his broad shoulders, he would have been thought a man of splendid presence.

   • 1913, Kate Douglas Wiggin, The story of Waitstill Baxter, page 134:

     […] to help satisfy the ravenous appetites of that couple of "great, gorming, greedy lubbers" that he was hiring this year.

   • 1937, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 159, page 638:

     "Great, gorming thing," he announced, and removed himself rapidly from its vicinity.

   • 1966, The Yale Literary Magazine, volume 135, issue 1, page 47:

     A streak of lack, no get-up-and-go, always late in the tide, not sprawl enough to dig his potatoes, no faculty at all, a gump, a gawk, a gowk, a goop, a great gorming lummox. How the townsmen poured it on! But he wasn't like that, I swear.

Synonyms

• gormy

References

Etymology 2

Verb

gorming

1. present participle of gorm