Gorming

adj, verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of gorm form-of, gerund, participle, present
Adjective
  1. 1
    Clumsy, lumbering, stupid. New-England, US, dialectal

    "He was a giant fellow, -— a "great gorming cutter,” Samantha Ann Millikeu called him; but if he had held up his head and straightened his broad shoulders, he would have been thought a man of splendid presence."

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gormygormy

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"He was a giant fellow, -— a "great gorming cutter,” Samantha Ann Millikeu called him; but if he had held up his head and straightened his broad shoulders, he would have been thought a man of splendid presence."

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