gom
English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Irish gám (“booby, dolt”).
Alternative forms
Noun
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
Variant of gum.
Noun
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
Minced oath.
Interjection
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:
Anagrams
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch gom, from Middle Dutch gomme, from Old French gomme, from Late Latin gumma, from earlier gummi, cummi.
Pronunciation
Noun
gom (uncountable)
Catalan
Etymology
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *culumus.
Pronunciation
Noun
gom
- Only used in de gom a gom
Further reading
- “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
Short for brudgom
Dutch
Alternative forms
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch gomme, from Old French gomme, from Late Latin gumma, from earlier gummi, cummi.
Pronunciation
Noun
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”)
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
gom
- inflection of gommen:
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
gom
- Alternative form of gome (“man”)
Etymology 2
Noun
gom
- Alternative form of gome (“regard”)
Etymology 3
Noun
gom
- Alternative form of gumme
Northern Kurdish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Armenian գոմ (gom).
Noun
gom f
References
- 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
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse gómr, from Proto-Germanic *gōmô
Noun
gom m (definite singular gommen, indefinite plural gommar, definite plural gommane)
- palate
- Synonym: gane
- gum (flesh around the roots of teeth)
- Synonym: tannkjøt(t)
Derived terms
Rohingya
Verb
gom
Swedish
Noun
gom c
Declension
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
- gomsegel (“soft palate”)
- gomspalt (“cleft palate”)
- gomspene (“uvula”)
- hård gom (“hard palate”)
- läckergom (“gourmet”)
- mjuk gom (“soft palate”)
References
- gom in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- gom in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- gom in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Vietnamese
Etymology
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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Verb
Derived terms
Noun
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Etymology
Borrowed from Irish gám (“booby, dolt”).
Pronunciation
Noun
gom
References
- 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
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