gaumy
English
Alternative forms
- gormy (US dialects, especially Southern US)
Etymology
gaum + -y, from gaum (“to smear”), which see for more.
Pronunciation
Adjective
gaumy (comparative more gaumy, superlative most gaumy)
- (US and UK, dialects) Sticky; smeared with something sticky.
- 1914, Edwin Markham, Children in Bondage: A Complete and Careful Presentation:
- The narrow, dark stairs are gaumy with paste, and everywhere open barrels of the mixture gave out the sickening, sour odor that is always in the nostrils of the workers.
- 1916, Don Marquis, Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers, page 164:
- And Fothergil Finch, rather gaumy
- With Cosmic cosmetics, was there,
- But the Swami went just as the Swami,
- After oiling the kinks in his hair.
- I said to Hermione: "Goddess! You're graceful, you're Greek, you're a rose, […] "
- 1946, Jessie Scott, The Charity Ball, page 259:
- Far from being gaumy with pitch, they looked rather remarkably smooth and well manicured.