gormy
adjUK /ˈɡɔːmi/ · US /ˈɡɔɹmi/
Etymology Either: * from gorm (“fool; one who is undiscerning”) + -y (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘having the quality of’); or * a variant of gaumy (“awkward”), from gaum (“to stare idly or vacantly; to gape, gaze; to be awkward or stupid; a lout; a gaping, idle fellow”) + -y.
1
New England, Northern England, UK, US Awkward, clumsy, klutzy, ungainly.
- And not always with finesse — the Lombard clanked and churned, and a man who is like a regular Lombard may be a bit gormy and sometimes apply brute strength when he might do the work easier if he'd stop and think a little.1990, John Gould, There Goes Maine!: A Somewhat History, Sort of, of the Pine Tree State, New York, N.Y.: Norton, →ISBN, page 1187:
- Kimball was never one to argue with a comrade's eyes and ears, not even those of a gormy jeezer like Connolly.1990, Maurice Shadbolt, Monday’s Warriors: […], Auckland: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 5:
2 more examples
- The Killian boy was carrying a chair, and making difficulties with it; he was what old-time Yankees would have called "a gormy lad."2009, Stephen King, chapter 23, in Under the Dome: […], New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN, page 682:
- Just the sort of place gormy Eugene would pick to hold a family get-together.2010 March, Pat Cunningham, chapter 4, in A London Werewolf in America, [Austin, Tex.]: Siren-BookStrand, →ISBN, page 32: