单词 | gormless |
释义 | gormlessadj. 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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