Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • See gaum.

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  • noun Alternative spelling of gorm.

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Examples

  • But that's because ye don't gawm the sorrowin 'mother was a hell-cat that hated him because he was acrewk'd -- a regular lamiter he was -- an' he hated her so that he committed suicide in order that she mightn't get an insurance she put on his life.

    Dracula 1897

  • But that's because ye don't gawm the sorrowin 'mother was a hell-cat that hated him because he was acrewk'd, a regular lamiter he was, an' he hated her so that he committed suicide in order that she mightn't get an insurance she put on his life.

    Dracula Bram Stoker 1879

  • But that’s because ye don’t gawm the sorrowin’ mother was a hell-cat that hated him because he was acrewk’d, a regular lamiter he was, an’ he hated her so that he committed suicide in order that she mightn’t get an insurance she put on his life.

    Dracula 2003

  • "Brer Fox, he put out fer home, he did, en w'en he git dar he run ter de cubbud [84] en des gawm hisse'f wid 'lasses, en den he went out in de bushes, he did, en waller in de leafs en trash twel he look mos' bad ez

    Nights With Uncle Remus Joel Chandler Harris 1878

  • "Brer Fox, he put out fer home, he did, en w'en he git dar he run ter de cubbud [84] en des gawm hisse'f wid 'lasses, en den he went out in de bushes, he did, en waller in de leafs en trash twel he look mos' bad ez

    Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation Joel Chandler Harris 1878

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  • That Dracula example is some sentence.

    January 1, 2013