English
gormy
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.
Formed from gorm ‘fool’ + -y
Proto-Germanic *gaumō ‘heed’
Old Norse gaumr
Middle English gome ‘Regard, attention, gaum’
English gorm
Today it means
adj Awkward, clumsy, klutzy, ungainly.
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