{UAH} WORD OF THE DAY March 1, 2019---- gormless

WORD OF THE DAY March 1, 2019

gormless    adjective | GORM-lus     Definition   chiefly British : lacking intelligence : stupid   Scroll down for more about gormless      TRENDING NOW: churlish perdition trenchant con man SEE ALL      PEOPLE ARE READING   Ye Olde Nincompoop       Your Grandparents' Dirty Dancing     'Billion' — Video Word of the Day 2/28/2019       On 'Hopepunk,' 'Mannerpunk,' and a Range of Punky Genres         WORD GAMES AND QUIZZES: WEEKLY CHALLENGE   February 2019 Words of the Day Quiz   The "we still have another month of winter" quiz     PLAY NOW     Nailed this quiz? We have plenty more to try!  TAKE ME THERE         Did You Know?   Gormless began life as the English dialect word gaumless, which was altered to the modern spelling when it expanded into wider use in the late 19th century. The origins of gaumless are easy to understand; the word derives from a combination of the dialect noun gaum, meaning "attention" or "understanding," and the suffix -less. This gaum has a related verb, also limited to dialect use, meaning "to pay attention to" and "to understand." Perhaps surprisingly, the four-letter gaum has multiple additional dialectal uses that are etymologically unrelated to these. Also noun-and-verb pairs, gaummeans "a sticky or greasy mess" and "to smudge or smear especially with something sticky or greasy," as well as "a stupid doltish person" and "to behave in a stupid or awkward manner." Use of all of these pales in comparison to that of gormless, however, which is most frequently seen in British English.     Examples of GORMLESS   "It would be difficult to think of many things more gormless than driving a car while blindfolded…." — Fergus Kelly, The Express, 16 Jan. 2019   "On screen, Laurel played gormless underling to Hardy's finicky little king. Off screen, though, the roles were reversed. Laurel co-directed the pictures and devised the bulk of the gags." — Xan Brooks, The Guardian, 4 Jan. 2019   Name That Synonym   Fill in the blanks to complete a synonym of gormless: u _ m _ a _ in _.   VIEW THE ANSWER           WORD OF THE YEAR 2018     Justice + 10 more   Read why justice is our Word of the Year, plus lodestar, epiphany, pansexual, and 7 more top words!   SEE THE FULL LIST            MORE WORD FUN:     WORD GAMES          TRENDING NOW          WORDS AT PLAY      FOLLOW US:

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