gom
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gom (plural goms)
- (Ireland) A foolish person.
- 1917, Mary Brigid Pearse, The Murphys of Ballystack, Dublin: M.H. Gill, page 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, page 137:
- 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 edit
Variant of gum.
Noun edit
gom (plural goms)
- (Appalachia) Alternative form of gum
- 1911, “Why moles have hands”, in Marshall Pinckney Wilder, editor, The Wit and Humor of America, 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 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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gom (uncountable)
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *culumus.
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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, 2024
- “gom” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Danish edit
Short for brudgom
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Alternative forms edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle Dutch gomme, from Old French gomme, from Late Latin gumma, from earlier gummi, cummi.
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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
- inflection of gommen:
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
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gom
- Alternative form of gome (“man”)
Etymology 2 edit
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gom
- Alternative form of gome (“regard”)
Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
gom
- Alternative form of gumme
Northern Kurdish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Armenian գոմ (gom).
Noun edit
gom f
References edit
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “գոմ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 575a
- Asatrjan, G. (1986) “О ранних арменизмах в курдском [On Early Armenian Loan-Words in Kurdish]”, in Patma-banasirakan handes [Historical-Philological Journal][1] (in Russian), number 2, Yerevan: Academy Press, pages 171–172
- Chyet, Michael L. (2020) “gom”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume I, London: Transnational Press, page 275ab
- Jaba, Auguste, Justi, Ferdinand (1879) Dictionnaire Kurde-Français [Kurdish–French Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 371a
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
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Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Norse gómr, from Proto-Germanic *gōmô
Noun edit
gom m (definite singular gommen, indefinite plural gommar, definite plural gommane)
- palate
- Synonym: gane
- gum (flesh around the roots of teeth)
- Synonym: tannkjøt(t)
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Rohingya edit
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gom
Swedish edit
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gom c
Declension edit
Declension of gom | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | gom | gommen | gommar | gommarna |
Genitive | goms | gommens | gommars | gommarnas |
Derived terms edit
- gomsegel (“soft palate”)
- gomspalt (“cleft palate”)
- gomspene (“uvula”)
- hård gom (“hard palate”)
- läckergom (“gourmet”)
- mjuk gom (“soft palate”)
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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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- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, published 1867, page 42