gorm
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Is gorm a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (UK and US, dialects) To gawk; to stare or gape.Examples: "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."; ""Tell Sannah to bring some coffee," said the young woman to a diminutive Kaffir boy, who stood gorming at us with round black eyes."; "They would stand in silence, mindlessly gorming at each other, […]"UKUSdialectal
verb (English)
1. (colloquial, rare) To devour; to wolf down (food).Examples: "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, […]"; "[…] 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."; "As Luohi said later, "He gormed it. Nay, he didn't eat it. He gormed it, the pig.""colloquialrare
verb (English)
1. (dialectal, chiefly Southern US, Appalachia, New England, often with ‘up’) To make a mess of.Examples: "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 […]"; ""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.""AppalachiaNew-EnglandSouthern-USdialectaloften
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