gom

See also: Appendix:Variations of "gom"

English

Etymology 1

    Borrowed from Irish gám (“booby, dolt”).

    Alternative forms

    Noun

    gom (plural goms)

    1. (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)

    1. (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

    1. (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."

    Anagrams

    Afrikaans

    Etymology

    From Dutch gom, from Middle Dutch gomme, from Old French gomme, from Late Latin gumma, from earlier gummi, cummi.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /χɔm/

    Noun

    gom (plural gomme)

    1. glue
    2. Gum, a viscous or sticky substance exuded by certain plants or produced synthetically.

    Bokar

    Noun

    gom

    1. language

    References

    • 欧阳觉亚 (1985), “gom”, in 珞巴族語言简志:崩尼-博嘎尔语 [Linguistic survey of the Lhoba people:Bokar language]‎[1], Beijing: 民族出版社, →OCLC, page 107

    Catalan

    Etymology

    Inherited from Vulgar Latin *culumus, metathesised form of Classical Latin cumulus. Compare Spanish colmo.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    gom

    1. only used in de gom a gom

    Further reading

    Dutch

    Alternative forms

    Etymology 1

    From Middle Dutch gomme, from Old French gomme, from Late Latin gumma, from earlier gummi, cummi.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ɣɔm/
    • Audio:(file)
    • Hyphenation: gom
    • Rhymes: -ɔm

    Noun

    gom m (plural gommen, diminutive gommetje n)

    1. gum, various viscous or sticky substances exuded by certain plants or produced synthetically
    2. an object made from gum
    3. (now Belgium) alternative form of gum (“eraser”)
    Derived terms
    Descendants
    • Afrikaans: gom
    • → Indonesian: gom
    • → Japanese: ゴム
    • → Makasar: hong (“eraser”)
    • → Papiamentu: gòm, gom

    Etymology 2

    See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

    Verb

    gom

    1. inflection of gommen:
      1. first-person singular present indicative
      2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
      3. imperative

    Indonesian

    Etymology

    Borrowed from Dutch gom (“gum”), from Middle Dutch gomme, from Old French gomme, from Late Latin gumma, from earlier gummi, cummi.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    gom (plural gom-gom)

    1. gum, various viscous or sticky substances exuded by certain plants or produced synthetically

    Further reading

    Middle English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    gom

    1. alternative form of gome (“man”)

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    gom

    1. alternative form of gome (“regard”)

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    gom

    1. alternative form of gumme

    Northern Kurdish

    Alternative forms

    Etymology

    Borrowed from Armenian գոմ (gom).

    Noun

    gom f

    1. sty, fold, pen; sheepfold

    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]‎[2] (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)

    1. palate
      Synonym: gane
    2. gum (flesh around the roots of teeth)
      Synonym: tannkjøt(t)

    Derived terms

    Rohingya

    Verb

    gom

    1. good

    Swedish

    Noun

    gom c

    1. a palate (roof of the mouth)

    Declension

    Declension of gom
    nominative genitive
    singular indefinite gom goms
    definite gommen gommens
    plural indefinite gommar gommars
    definite gommarna gommarnas

    Derived terms

    References

    Vietnamese

    Etymology

    From Proto-Austroasiatic *kom (“to gather, to associate”). Cognate with Bahnar akŏm/akŭm (“to meet together, to gather things”), Mon ကောံ (kɒm, “to assemble, come together”) and Khmer ចង្កោម (cɑngkaom, “bunch”).

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    gom • (搛, 𡗄)

    1. to gather together

    Derived terms

    Yola

    Etymology

    Borrowed from Irish gám (“booby, dolt”).

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ɡɔm/

    Noun

    gom

    1. fool, idiot

    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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