Citations:gormy

English citations of gormy

2002, Down East, volume 48, issues 6-12, page 17:
Bulky and gormy and with bulbous toes, the rubber boots are called "Mickey Mouse boots" or simply "mouse boots" by outdoorspeople in the know because they're reminiscent of the ones worn by the Disney icon.
Machine Art and Other Writings (1996, →ISBN, pge 141:
Their minds function O.K. chief, and then they try to square what they know with some damned idiocy taken out of the barbarian writings and the result is a gormy mess.

or perhaps this is a different sense?:

2012, Anya Seton, The Hearth and Eagle →ISBN:
"My God, Roger, you're that gormy at your vittles, I'm like to go mad."

2001, Lori Copeland, Grace in Autumn: - A Novel →ISBN:
The gormy cuss was being a little melodramatic.
2002, Lori Copeland, A Warmth in Winter →ISBN, page 135:
“I've offered all kinds of help, but he's a right gormy old fellow. Terribly independent.”
2012, Kate Hanney, Watermelon →ISBN, page 17:
'Shut your faces, you gormy slags,' he said. Then he looked at me and flicked his head towards the door. 'Come on, mate, don't take any notice of them, they're a right couple of freaks.'

2009, Aviva Tuffield, New Australian Stories, page 94:
I pull a gormy face and she laughs. She puts them up to my nose for me to sniff. Isn't that lovely, she says, […]
2011, Helen Bailey, Falling Hook, Line and Sinker: Crazy World of Electra Brown 5 →ISBN:
Butterface turns to me, her face as gormy and blank as usual.
2011, Terry K. Rodgers, Delusion →ISBN:
"And git that gormy look off yer face before I wipe it off for you."

Selected Prose, 1909-1965 (1975, →ISBN, page 152
Jefferson's America was civilised while because its chief men were social. It is only in our gormy and squalid day that the chief American powers have been, and are, anti-social.

1919, William de Morgan, The Old Madhouse, page 306:
"The Old Cat wasn't wrong, for once; only I wish she wouldn't trot out her gormy daubs and ask for my honest opinion of them."

1907, William de Morgan, Alice-for-short: a dichronism, page 332:
"Har! Har! Har! What's his work like though, reely?"

"Footy stuff. Gormy colour. No drawin'!"

this either means "sticky" or is eye-dialect for "gourmet"!:

1919, Julie Mathilde Lippmann, Flexible Ferdinand, page 24:
"Ferdy's your pet. He always gets chocklit-cake anyhow without havin' to ask." Fresh from the oven, warm and rich, with wonderful "gormy fillin'" between the golden layers the chocolate cake would be cut in generous segments.

1898, Rosa Campbell Praed, The Scourge-stick, page 183:
when he talks literary shop, and scolds me for being too much of a mental anatomist, and for my "gloomy, gormy, death's-head-and-crossbones" views of things generally. How we laughed once over my sentimentalism!