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单词 gormless
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gormlessadj.

/ˈɡɔːmlɪs/
Forms: Also 1700s– (dialect) gaumless, gawm(b)less.
Etymology: < gaum, dialect < gome n.2 notice, understanding + -less suffix.
Originally dialect.
Wanting sense, or discernment.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > [adjective]
dizzyc825
unwisec825
redelessOE
unwittyc1000
daftlikec1175
witlessc1175
canga1225
adoted?c1225
cangun?c1225
egedec1225
cangeda1250
foola1250
snepea1250
aerwittec1275
sotlyc1275
unslyc1275
unwitterc1275
unwilya1300
nicec1300
goosishc1374
unskilfulc1374
follyc1380
lewdc1380
mis-feelinga1382
dottlec1390
foltedc1390
peevishc1400
fona1425
fonnishc1425
foliousa1450
foolisha1450
daft?c1450
doitedc1450
dotyc1450
daffish1470
insapientc1470
gucked?a1500
wanwittya1500
furious1526
insipient1528
seelya1529
dawish?1529
foolage1545
momish1546
base-wittedc1547
stultitiousa1549
follifulc1550
senseless1565
mopish1568
fondish1579
unsensiblea1586
fondly1587
dizzardly1594
follial1596
featlessc1598
fopperly1599
gowkeda1605
inept1604
simple1604
anserine1607
foppish1608
silly ass1608
unsage1608
wisdomless1608
fool-beggeda1616
Gotham1621
noddy1645
badot1653
dosser-headed1655
infrunite1657
nonsensicalc1661
slight1663
sappy1670
datelessa1686
noddy-peaked1694
nizy1709
dottled1772
gypit1804
shay-brained1806
folly-stricken1807
fool-like1811
goosy1811
spoony1813
niddle-noddle1821
gumptionless1823
daftish1825
anserous1826
as crazy as a loon1830
spoonish1833
cheese-headed1836
dotty1860
fool-fool1868
noodly1870
dilly1873
gormless1883
daffy1884
monkey-doodle1886
mosy1887
jay1891
pithecanthropic1897
peanut-headed1906
dinlo1907
boob1911
goofy1921
ding-a-ling1935
jerky1944
jerk1947
jerkish1948
pointy-headed1950
doofus1967
twitty1967
twittish1969
nerkish1975
numpty1992
?1746 ‘T. Bobbin’ View Lancs. Dial. 22 I steart like o Wil-cat on wur welly gawmless.
1847 E. Brontë Wuthering Heights II. vii. 145 Did I ever look so stupid, so ‘gaumless’, as Joseph calls it.
1861 E. Waugh Birtle Carter's Tale 19 Eh, thae greyt, gawmbless foo! Wheer arto for up theer!
1881 ‘Basil’ Love the Debt iii You lazy, idle, gaumless good-for-nowt!
1883 in B. Webb My Apprenticeship (1926) iii. 161 Parliament is such a far-off thing, that [they]..say that it is ‘gormless meddling with it’.
1925 J. Agate Contemp. Theatre 1924 44 Cordelia is a ‘gumph’ or, as we say in Lancashire, ‘gormless’.
1932 L. Golding Magnolia St. ii. ii. 304 She just went on pulling the [beer] handle and in a moment..the floor was swilling. ‘Mother!’ cried little Nellie sharply. ‘You are gormless!’
1934 A. Ransome Coot Club xix. 233 Ye'd better. He'll ferget the salt else, the gormless old lummocks!
1940 Illustr. London News 197 164/2 He looks at once genial and ‘gormless’.
1951 ‘E. Crispin’ Long Divorce viii. 84 Pen's been running after a gormless little twerp of a foreign school~master.
1959 Punch 17 June 813/2 As a result of this unorthodox treatment Quince's gormless Thespians emerge not as rough comics but as decent, sensible men.

Derivatives

ˈgormlessness n. the quality of being gormless.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > [noun]
unwisdomc825
unredeeOE
egedec1175
unwitc1175
unwisdomnessa1200
dusileca1225
dusischipa1225
folly?c1225
kangschipe?c1225
unwitshipa1250
unwisenessa1340
cornardy1340
unwithead1340
lewdness1362
nicetyc1380
sotie1390
folitya1400
follinessa1400
foolheada1400
insipiencec1422
fondnessa1425
wanwita1425
cocardyc1430
foltry1440
jopperyc1440
folliheada1450
fonning?a1475
niceheada1475
foltheadc1475
folabilitya1529
daftness1552
foolageness1563
foppery1592
guckry1596
senselessness1606
coxcombry1608
goosery1642
ineptitude1656
fopicalness1660
fopperishness1683
insagacity1808
spoonery1824
spooniness1824
noodleism1830
addle-headedness1835
foolishment1852
insapiency1876
ineptness1877
goosiness1888
inepticality1923
sappiness1943
gormlessness1958
1958 Times 12 Nov. 3/3 Mr. Danny Ross suffers terrific indignities as the youth and makes his gormlessness not only amusing but genuinely likeable.
1970 Daily Tel. 4 Sept. 11/2 That other skilled writer in the genre..depended on queers or gormlessness for two West End successes.

Draft additions 1993

ˈgormlessly adv.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [adverb]
sotly1154
blately1513
grossly?1531
dully1533
blockishly1556
bluntly1557
buzzardly1561
sottishly1566
thickly1574
doltishly1580
witlessly1598
stupidiously1600
brainlessly1610
stupidly?1611
insulsely1637
uncleverly1697
numbskully1708
unintelligently1754
stupid?1757
duncishly1826
stockishly1846
sumphishly1850
simple-mindedly1851
obtusely1863
crassly1883
bovinely1900
unperceptively1935
simplistically1939
obtusively1953
dopily1958
gormlessly1958
1958 L. Little Dear Boys ix. 167 Joe came back into the room smiling gormlessly. He was far away.
1986 Financial Times 3 July 29/2 His gormlessly inept RADA audition (Macbeth's dagger speech) belongs to farce.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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