单词 GORMLESS的词源
Variant of C18 gaumless, from dialect gome, from Old English gom, gome, from Old Norse gaumr heed.
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Gravitas, Punctilio, Rectitude & Pippy Bags
Tiny. Enid. And. The. Gormless. Nipper. CLUBFOOTED TOT WINS HEROISM
CUP. This was the headline on the front page of the Daily Brouhaha that first
brought Tiny Enid to national attention. Until then, her heroic exploits were known
only ...
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Engineering Culture: Control and Commitment in a High-Tech ...
Gormless is a Languedocian adjective, signifying unsalted, saltless, tasteless
and flat. Metaphorically it means foolish, simple, devoid of intelligence, and
cracked in the upper storey. But would you say, as might logically be inferred
from this, ...
Terry Wheeler. he had miscalculated and his fist landed full on Gormless
George's mouth. Gormless George fell over. Eric doubled up in pain and fell over.
Gormless George sat up and spat blood. Eric rolled on the ground screaming in
agony.
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Out of Corpora: Studies in Honour of Stig Johansson
He. was. really. gormless. --She's. bloody. crap. Girls,. Boys. aod. Ioteosifiers.
Anna-Brita Stenstrom University of Bergen 1 Introduction This paper reports on a
study of intensifiers in teenage talk, the aim of which has been to find out whether
...
Hilde Hasselgård, Signe Oksefjell, 1999
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Winter Climbs in the Cairngorms: The Cairngorms and Creag ...
The following six routes lie on the right side of Lairig Ridge, the most prominent
feature here. gormless takes the most prominent line of grooves on the right-hand
side. braer rabbit 130m iii J Lyall, A Nisbet andJ Preston, 20 December 2006 ...
Allen Fyffe, Blair Fyffe, 2012
Graham Smith. “A bathful of edible frog tadpoles, and twenty Benson & Hedges.”
He thought it wise not to mention the magic mushrooms or the dope. “Pardon!”
Donald repeated himself. Constable Gormless clamped his hand over the ...
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Gormless Tom: And Other Tales from the British Isles
Nine folktales from England, Ireland, and Scotland, including You Can't Please Everybody, and Jack and the Cornish Giants.
Since her name is unpro— nounceable, I've christened her Gormless Gertrude.” “
Gormless? Is that an African forename or an English insult?” The lady giggled. “If
she weren't too gormless to know what gormless means she might well be ...
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The Hamiltons: Two Novels
It isn't often one can make a heroine out of a girl who is a bit, shall we say,
gormless. Well, she must have been to be taken in by that brute of a man, and
then to stay with him all those years. But of course there was the pull of the
property, and ...
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English/German Dictionary of Idioms: Supplement to the ...
gormless. to be gormless unbedarft: ziemlich/sehr/... unbedarft sein/ein ziemlich/..
. unbedarftes Geschöpf/Menschenkind/... sein. gospel. s.th. iss.o.'sgospel
Evangelium:der 'Faust'/...istjs.Evangelium s.o.'s works/writings are gospel for s.o.
...
Professor Hans Schemann, 2013
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Review: NORTHERN LIMIT LINE Mistakes Nationalism For Narrative
In his first post-military service role, Gim Mu-yeol (Eungyo, 2012) is all stern glares in a relentlessly gormless performance as the ship's ... «TwitchFilm, 七月 15»
Studio Ghibli's penultimate film is a beautiful, melancholic fairytale …
... the gamut from 18th-century military marches to lonely cafe suppers, linked by the tragicomic travails of two gormless novelty-gift salesmen. «The Guardian, 七月 15»
Is Hollywood afraid of older women?
But let's get real here: Aunt May is a flat, gormless part for an actress of any age, let alone one of Tomei's status and vivacity. The problem isn't ... «The Guardian, 七月 15»
Darby McCarthy with Thomas Watson and Courtney Bowden at …
... depressing period that also featured more gormless behaviour by another tennis prodigy, Bernard Tomic, photos of footballer Harley Bennell ... «Herald Sun, 七月 15»
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... elbowed aside by this fact-studded fiction's near-ruinous focus on a gormless surfer played by the chronically inexpressive Josh Hutcherson. «New York Times, 七月 15»
Heathrow and the strange, far-off days when Britain actually built …
Stop being a gormless prat. 1951 – 1964 and you know it well. rtj1211. Absolute rubbish. Conservatives could have privatised easily in the ... «Spectator.co.uk, 七月 15»
Swanny's World of Sport - Punish the pig-impersonators
For every 'get in the hole' shouted by the gormless sports fans found Stateside. there's an irritating 'cmon, Andy, Tim, Roger' from some Hoorah ... «Peterborough Telegraph, 七月 15»
Should Barnaby Joyce resign?
A string of recent decision from his office are gormless, to the point of silliness (e.g. move R&D organisations to his electorate at the expense of ... «Crikey, 七月 15»
What Harry Enfield's Stavros the kebab shop owner would think of …
It's juss as well we got Ian Dunkin-Donuts and Boy George Osborne, not Gormless Brown or Ed Millerband, running things. As a small busy ... «Daily Mail, 七月 15»
Bologna's Il Cinema Ritrovato festival gives classics new life
The hairdresser and his gormless assistant (played by the writer-director) attempt to dump the body on the property of neighbours having a very ... «The Australian, 七月 15»
