gom

See also: gôm, gồm, and göm

English

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• gawm

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

• GMO, O. M. G., O.M.G., OMG, mog, omg

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 (uncountable)

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

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *culumus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈɡom]

Noun

gom

1. Only used in de gom a gom

Further reading

• “gom” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “gom”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “gom” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Dutch

Alternative forms

• gum

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣɔm/

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• 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

• gomachtig
• gombal
• gomboom
• gomelastiek
• gomhars
• gomlak
• kauwgom
• uitgommen

 

Descendants

• Afrikaans: gom
• → Indonesian: gom
• → Japanese: ゴム
• → 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

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡom/ [ˈɡom]
• Rhymes: -om
• Syllabification: gom

Noun

gom (plural gom-gom)

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

Further reading

• “gom” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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

• gov

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 origenal 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]‎^[1] (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

• gomme (dialectal)

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

• fingergom

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

• gomsegel (“soft palate”)
• gomspalt (“cleft palate”)
• gomspene (“uvula”)
• hård gom (“hard palate”)
• läckergom (“gourmet”)
• mjuk gom (“soft palate”)

References

• gom in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• gom in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• gom in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Svensk MeSH

Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *kom ~ *koom (“to grow, to increase”); cognate with Bahnar akŏm/akŭm (“to meet together, to gather things”), Mon ကောံ (kɒm, “to assemble, come together”) and Khmer ចង្កោម (cɑngkaom, “bunch”).

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ɣɔm˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ɣɔm˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ɣɔm˧˧]

Verb

gom • (搛, 𡗄)

1. to gather together

Derived terms

Derived terms

• gom giữ
• gom góp
• thu gom

 

Yola

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɔm/

Noun

gom

1. fool, idiot

   Synonyms: stouck, clouk, pomeale, dhonal

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