gormless
Betekenis (Engels)
Lacking intelligence, sense or understanding; foolish.
Sinonieme
turkey
Vertalings
Uitgespreek as (IPA)
/ˈɡɔːmləs/
Etimologie (Engels)
From dialectal English gaum (“heed, attention”) + -less (“without”), from Old Norse gaum, from Proto-Germanic *gaumaz, *gaumō (“heed, attention”). The ‘r’ found in this spelling is a vowel-lengthening device common in non-rhotic dialects of English.
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