Gaumy

Alternative forms

• gormy US dialects, especially Southern US

Origin

From gaum ("to smear"), which see for more.

Full definition of gaumy

Adjective

1. (US and UK, dialects) Sticky; smeared with something sticky.
• 1914, Edwin Markham, Children in Bondage: A Complete and Careful Presentation:The narrow, dark stairs are gaumy with paste, and everywhere open barrels of the mixture gave out the sickening, sour odor that is always in the nostrils of the workers.
• 1916, Don Marquis, Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers, page 164:And Fothergil Finch, rather gaumyWith Cosmic cosmetics, was there,But the Swami went just as the Swami,After oiling the kinks in his hair.I said to Hermione: "Goddess! You're graceful, you're Greek, you're a rose, ..."
• 1946, Jessie Scott, The Charity Ball, page 259:Far from being gaumy with pitch, they looked rather remarkably smooth and well manicured.