gomeril

/ ˈɡɒmərɪl /

noun

1. a slow-witted or stupid person

Word History and Origins

Origin of gomeril¹

C19: of uncertain origin

Example Sentences

Reviewing the latter in the Guardian, Margaret Drabble wrote of how “Miller ... is fond of salting his prose with authentic Scottish vernacular, both demotic and archaic, with words like nae and braw and auld and lug and cowp and gomeril”, and of how “these sprinklings remind us and him of his origins, from which he has strayed so far, entrenching himself in voluntary exile for nearly the whole of his adult life in a highly pressurised and very urban literary London”.

From The Guardian

Tretower to Clyro: Essaysby Karl Miller Miller, who prevailed in this exchange, is fond of salting his prose with authentic Scottish vernacular, both demotic and archaic, with words like nae and braw and auld and lug and cowp and gomeril.

From The Guardian

Kists and coffins, ye gomeril woman!—why, that's a packman; and I'll warrant he has as mony shawls, and gown-pieces, and ribbons, and as muckle braw Brussels lace in his box, as wad set ye fleeing to kirk on Sabbath, like an Indian queen.

From Project Gutenberg

Eden stared at her friend with the astonishment of a gomeril at a contortionist.

From Project Gutenberg

I have proved myself a gomeril this night.

From Project Gutenberg