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.
   • 1917, Mary Brigid Pearse, The Murphys of Ballystack (Dublin : M.H. Gill) p.139:

     “ Ye don’t how how to dhrive a mothor car ! ” shouted Miles, losing his temper completely. “ What a gom ye are ! ”

   • 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

     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:

     "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, O. M. G., O.M.G., OMG, mog, omg

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Afrikaans

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /χɔm/

Noun

gom (uncountable)

1. Gum, a viscous or sticky substance exuded by certain plants or produced synthetically.

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Catalan

Etymology

Vulgar Latin *culumus

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡom/

Noun

gom

1. Only used in de gom a gom

Further reading

• “gom” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “gom”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2022
• “gom” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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Dutch

Alternative forms

• gum

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣɔm/

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• Hyphenation: gom
• Rhymes: -ɔm

Noun

gom m (plural gommen, diminutive gommetje n)

1. gum, various viscous or sticky substances exuded by certain plants or produced synthetically.
2. an object made from gum
3. (now Belgium) Alternative form of gum (“eraser”)

Derived terms

• gomachtig
• gombal
• gomboom
• gomelastiek
• gomhars
• gomlak
• kauwgom
• uitgommen

 

Descendants

• Afrikaans: gom
• → Indonesian: gom
• → Japanese: ゴム
• → Papiamentu: gòm, gom

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

gom

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

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Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

gom

1. Alternative form of gome (“man”)

Etymology 2

Noun

gom

1. Alternative form of gome (“regard”)

Etymology 3

Noun

gom

1. Alternative form of gumme

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Rohingya

Verb

gom

1. good

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Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *kom ~ *koom (“to grow, to increase”); cognate with Bahnar akŏm/akŭm (“to meet together, to gather things”), Mon ကောံ (kɒm, “to assemble, come together”) and Khmer ចង្កោម (cɑngkaom, “bunch”).

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ɣɔm˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ɣɔm˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ɣɔm˧˧]

Verb

gom • (搛)

1. to gather together

Derived terms

Derived terms

• gom góp
• thu gom

 

Noun

gom

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Yola

Etymology

From Irish gámaí (“booby, dolt”).

Noun

gom

1. idiot, fool

References

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 42