gomeral

1. (chiefly Scotland, now rare) Fool, simpleton.Examples: "[...] to the apparent delectation of immense audiences of gaping gomerals, but to the intense disgust of all sensible people."; ""But, you gomeral, you belong to my class, and not to your own!" said the old lord, feeling, with a mixture of pain and amusement and impatience, his own ignorance before the superior and melancholy knowledge of life possessed by this boy."; "The same faithful gomeral is to despatch this letter by the express along with those of the wiseacres, so that you may hear Tom Fool in company with Solomon."Scotlandarchaic