gomere
English
Etymology
From gomer "an undesirable hospital patient", by analogy to feminine nouns in French, such as cuisinière.
Noun
gomere (plural gomeres)
- (rare, slang, derogatory) A female gomer; a female hospital patient who is unpleasant to treat or who does not respond to treatment.
- 1978, Samuel Shem, The House of God[1], page 38:
- Ina Goober, whom I admitted six times last year. A gomer, or rather, the feminine, gomere.
- 1996, Jeffrey E. Nash and James M. Calonico, The Meaning of Social Interaction: An Introduction to Social Psychology[2], page 139:
- "Did you buff that gomere?" "Sure thing, I buffed her, and they turfed her to urology, but she bounced back to me!"
References
- John Algeo (1991) Fifty Years Among the New Words, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.