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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Irish gámaí (“booby, dolt”).
Alternative forms[edit]
Noun[edit]
gom (plural goms)
- (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!"
- 1917, Mary Brigid Pearse, The Murphys of Ballystack (Dublin : M.H. Gill) p.139:
Etymology 2[edit]
Variant of gum.
Noun[edit]
gom (plural goms)
- (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.
- 1911, Why moles have hands, in The Wit and Humor of America, edited by Marshall Pinckney Wilder, page 206:
Etymology 3[edit]
Minced oath.
Interjection[edit]
gom
- (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."
- 1804, an entry in the Theatrical Journal of The European Magazine: And London Review, volume 45, page 373:
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Etymology[edit]
From Dutch gom, from Middle Dutch gomme, from Old French gomme, from Late Latin gumma, from earlier gummi, cummi.
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Noun[edit]
gom (uncountable)
Catalan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
gom
- Only used in de gom a gom
Further reading[edit]
- “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.
Dutch[edit]
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Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle Dutch gomme, from Old French gomme, from Late Latin gumma, from earlier gummi, cummi.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
gom m (plural gommen, diminutive gommetje n)
- gum, various viscous or sticky substances exuded by certain plants or produced synthetically.
- an object made from gum
- (now Belgium) Alternative form of gum (“eraser”)
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Etymology 2[edit]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb[edit]
gom
Middle English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
gom
- Alternative form of gome (“man”)
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
gom
- Alternative form of gome (“regard”)
Etymology 3[edit]
Noun[edit]
gom
- Alternative form of gumme
Rohingya[edit]
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gom
Vietnamese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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”).
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Yola[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Irish gámaí (“booby, dolt”).
Noun[edit]
gom
References[edit]
- 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
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