gomere

English

Etymology

From gomer "an undesirable hospital patient", by analogy to feminine nouns in French, such as cuisinière.

Noun

gomere (plural gomeres)

1. (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.

Anagrams

• Germoe