其他寫法

• (英國方言)

動詞

(第三人稱單數簡單現在時，現在分詞，一般過去時及過去分詞)

1. 〈方〉 瞪，盯
   • 1922, Elinor Mordaunt, Laura Creichton, page 110:

     Passing through St. George's Square, Lupus Street, Chichester Street, he scarcely saw a soul; then, quite suddenly, he struck a dense crowd, kept back by the police, standing gorming at a great jagged hole in a high blank wall, a glimpse, the merest glimpse of more broken walls, shattered chimneys.

   • 1901, New Outlook, volume 67, page 408:

     "Tell Sannah to bring some coffee," said the young woman to a diminutive Kaffir boy, who stood gorming at us with round black eyes.

   • 1990, Jean Ure, Play Nimrod for him, →ISBN，頁號 96:

     They would stand in silence, mindlessly gorming at each other, […]

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

   • 2005, Lynne Truss, The Lynne Truss Treasury: Columns and Three Comic Novels ISBN 1101218266:

     In particular, we like to emphasize that, far from wasting our childhoods (not to mention adulthoods) mindlessly gorming at The Virginian and The Avengers, we spent those couch-potato years in rigorous preparation for our chosen career.

相關詞彙

• (“看見，認得”)
• (“理解，考慮”)

動詞

(第三人稱單數簡單現在時，現在分詞，一般過去時及過去分詞)

1. 的另一種寫法 （弄髒）
   • 1884, Margaret Elizabeth Majendie, Out of their element, page 70:

     'It is quite ruined.'

     'How did she do it? What a pity!'

     'With paint—assisting in the painting of a garden-gate. She told me the pleasure of "gorming" it on was too irresistible to be resisted; and the poor little new gown in done for.'

   • 1909, Augusta Kortrecht, The Widow Mary, in Good Housekeeping, volume 48, page 182:

     "It was in a little sprinkler bottle, an' I gormed it onto my vittles good an' thick. Lordy, Lordy, an' now I got to die!"

參考資料

• Bennett Wood Green, Word-book of Virginia Folk-speech (1912), page 202:

  Gorm, v. To smear, as with anything sticky. When a child has smeared its face with something soft and sticky, they say: "Look how you have gormed your face."

動詞

(第三人稱單數簡單現在時，現在分詞，一般過去時及過去分詞)

1. 〈口〉〈罕〉 狼吞虎嚥
   • 1885 James Johonnot, Neighbors with Claws and Hoofs, and Their Kin, page 105:

     The bear came up to the berries and stopped. Not accustomed to eat out of a pail, he tipped it over, and nosed about the fruit "gorming" it down, mixed with leaves and dirt, […]

   • 1920, Outdoor Recreation: The Magazine that Brings the Outdoors In:

     […] an itinerant bruin and with naught on his hands but time and an appetite, [to] wander from ravine to ravine and gorm down this delectable fruit.

   • 1980, Michael G. Karni, Finnish Americana, page 5:

     As Luohi said later, "He gormed it. Nay, he didn't eat it. He gormed it, the pig."

其他寫法

動詞

(第三人稱單數簡單現在時，現在分詞，一般過去時及過去分詞)

1. 〈方〉(美國南部, 阿巴拉契亞, 新英格蘭, 多與‘up’連用) 弄亂
   • 1910, English Mechanic and World of Science, volume 91, page 273:

     I find the cheap shilling self-filling pen advertised in these pages excellent value—quite equal to that of fountain-pens I have paid ten times as much for. It is also durable. I am a careless person, and prefer to discard it when I have “gormed” it […]

   • 2008, Christine Blevins, Midwife of the Blue Ridge, →ISBN，頁號 133:

     "Truth is, I've gormed it all up, Alistair. When it comes t' women — nice women anyway — I'm as caw-handed and cork-brained as any pimply boy."

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

References

• Maine lingo: boiled owls, billdads & wazzats (1975), page 114: "A man who bungles a job has gormed it. Anybody who stumbles over his own feet is gormy."
• Smoky Mountain Voices: A Lexicon of Southern Appalachian Speech (1993, ISBN 0813129583: "gorm: [v. to make a mess.] If a house be in disorder it is said to be all gormed or gaumed up (B 368)."

變格

舊拼寫

派生詞

派生詞

相關詞彙