gom
God!
Interjection
- God!
- There's a Lad, too, from York— but tho' he's a strange elf, / By gom! I respect him as much as myself, - 1804, an entry in the Theatrical Journal of The European Magazine: And London Review, volume 45, page 373
- 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! - 1829, “The Humours of Vauxhall”, in The Universal Songster, Or Museum of Mirth,...
- "l'll drink as much cider as you 'plase, but by gom, sir, you munna come here to bork the trees over again." - 1861, The Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer, volumes 9-10, page 36:
Origin
Minced oath.
Noun Ireland
- A foolish person.
- “ Ye don’t how how to dhrive a mothor car ! ” shouted Miles, losing his temper completely. “ What a gom ye are ! ” - 1917, Mary Brigid Pearse, The Murphys of Ballystack, Dublin: M.H. Gill, page 139:
- Fluther: ... You must think Fluther's a right gom. - 1926, Seán O'Casey, The Plough and the Stars, act II, page 137:
- 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...
Origin
Etymology tree Irish gámbor. English gom Borrowed from Irish gám (“booby, dolt”).
Forms
Noun Appalachia, alt of
- Alternative form of gum.
- 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. - 1911, “Why moles have hands”, in Marshall Pinckney Wilder, editor, The Wit and Humor of America, page 206:
Origin
Variant of gum.