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gormaw Sc. and north. dial.
Also 8–9 gorma(h, 9 gormer, gormow. See also goul-mau.
[? f. gore n.1 + maw; cf. gorbelly.]
The cormorant.
1500–20Dunbar Poems xxxiii. 77 The golk, the gormaw, and the gled, Beft him with buffettis quhill he bled. 1722Ramsay Eagle & Robin Redbr. 15 Greidy Gleds and slie Gormahs. 1847–78Halliwell, Gorma, a cormorant. North. 1893Northumbld. Gloss., Gormer, the cormorant.
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1808–80Jamieson, Gormaw,..a glutton, Lanarks. 1878Cumbld. Gloss., Gormow, a clownish fellow; sometimes applied to a great eater. |