gom

See also: gôm, gồm, and göm

English

Etymology 1

From Irish gámaí (“booby, dolt”).

Alternative forms

• gawm

Noun

gom (plural goms)

1. (Ireland) A foolish person.
   • 1926, Seán O'Casey, The Plough and the Stars, Act II, 173:

     Fluther: ... You must think Fluther's a right gom.

   • 2007, John Maher, The Luck Penny, page 145:

     And that's the why I made up my mind to go out to Willie Hill's. To stand my ground in front of that little minx. Because I felt, to tell the God's truth, that little Lorna Lovegrove, out in Willie Hill's, was making a right gom out of me.

   • 2013, Outrageous Pride (ISBN 1626229058)

     He had a sinking feeling that he'd made a right gom of himself, hanging onto her until the last before she departed […]

   • 2014, Martha Long, Ma, I'm Gettin Meself a New Mammy (ISBN 160980502X):

     "Yeah! She's a right gom! Sister Eleanor probably got her an old-age pensioner to keep her company for the Christmas!"

Etymology 2

Variant of gum.

Noun

gom (plural goms)

1. (Appalachia) Alternative form of gum
   • 1911, Why moles have hands, in The Wit and Humor of America, edited by Marshall Pinckney Wilder, page 206:

     ev'y toof in his jaws gwine come bustin' thu his goms widout nair' a ache er a pain ter let him know dey's dar.

Etymology 3

Minced oath.

Interjection

gom

1. (obsolete, euphemistic) God!
   • 1804, an entry in the Theatrical Journal of The European Magazine: And London Review, volume 45, page 373:

     There's a Lad, too, from York— but tho' he's a strange elf, / By gom! I respect him as much as myself,

   • 1829, The Humours of Vauxhall, in The Universal Songster, Or Museum of Mirth, volume 2, page 164:

     O dang it, Roger, did 'e ever see sich a sight afore? My gom! what a glorious lumination like! My goles! what a mort of gentry-folk!

   • 1861, The Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer, volumes 9-10, page 36:

     "l'll drink as much cider as you 'plase, but by gom, sir, you munna come here to bork the trees over again."

   • 1908, Edmund Mackenzie Sneyd-Kynnersley, H. M. I.: Some Passages in the Life of One of H. M. Inspectors of Schools, page 224:

     Robert took courage : "Eh, by gom, no. It wasn't hereabouts."

Anagrams

• GMO
• mog
• omg, OMG

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɔm
• IPA^(key): /ɣɔm/

Etymology

From Middle Dutch gomme, from Old French gomme, from Late Latin gumma, from earlier gummi, cummi.

Noun

gom c (plural gommen, diminutive gommetje n)

1. gum, various viscous or sticky substances exuded by certain plants
2. an object made from/with it, especially:
3. an eraser, used to delete markings by rubbing off the ink etc.

Derived terms

• gomachtig
• gombal m
• gomboom m
• gomelastiek n
• gomhars m, n
• gomlak m, n
• uitgommen

Verb

gom

1. first-person singular present indicative of gommen
2. imperative of gommen

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Rohingya

Verb

gom

1. good