Definition of "gorm" [gorm]

• Upper Southern U.S. Variant of gaum. (noun)

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• "And then when he looked up "gorm" in the dictionary, he couldn't find it."
• "He loves _ghi_ (or clarified butter) and animal fat, which he swallows in large gulps when he can get it, also rubbing it in his frizzy hair and using it to sleek his black, spindly shanks and smear his spear-blades -- on shikar he will "gorm" it all over your spare gun if you do not watch him."
• "Lapland and on Novaya Zemlya, by "gorm" (inch-long larvæ of a fly, which are developed under the animal's skin)."