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Chris -- 2018-04-11
The meaning regardless of spelling is stupid, or lacking intelligence. A vacant stare with a fly-catching, open mouth. It’s a British English word, uncommon in America. The two spellings reflect different transliterations of British pronunciation.
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Welcome, johngreenhow – the problem with your putative eggcorn is that ‘gaum’ as opposed to ‘gorm’, despite 206,000 ghits, presents us with no feasible alternative imagery – it is, as you say, simply an alternative transliteration, and therefore has no eggcornish pretensions at all.
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