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soils himself; a bungling, untidy and slovenly person; a dirty g. (U^wg. gȯrm). — *gorm- or *gurm-. Icel. gormur, m., No. gorm and gurm (n? m?), Sw. dial. gorm, m., mire; mud; dirt; filth (e.g. from entrails of animals, of fish); Sw. dial. gorm also means work badly done.

gorm [gȯrm (gorm)], vb., 1) vb. n., to root in mire or (soft) dirt; to do a piece of dirty work; to g. in dirt, in rotten taatis [‘potatoes’], in weet [‘wet’] fish, etc. (L., Wh., etc.: gȯrm). 2) vb. a., to g. anesell [‘oneself’], to besmear oneself and get slimy (by handling raw fish) [comm.: gȯrm; Uⁿ.: gorm, gȯrm]; he gormd his face, hands, claes [‘clothes’]. In senses 1 and 2 also gjorm [gjȯrm, gjȯr^əm], thus in Nm., Sa. and U^wg. besides gorm. 3) to bungle a piece of work; du is gormin [gȯrmɩn] atill yon de day (Y^h.) = du is hadin a gorm atill yon de day; see gorm, sb. — *gorma or *gurma. No. gurma, vb., to make muddy, stir up; Sw. dial. gorma (gåårm), vb., a) to stir up dirt; b) to do work badly.

gormet [gȯrmət], adj., 1) besmeared with dirt, (quite) begrimed, esp. in the face; a g. face; his face was a’[‘all’] g. Wests. (Sa.; Fo.). 2) of sheep: discoloured, white with small, black spots on the forehead; a g. sheep. Fo. *gormôttr or *gurmôttr; No. gurmutt and gyrmutt, adj., discoloured; muddy; miry.

gormoget [gȯrmō·gət], adj., soiled; besmeared with dirt; very dirty. Du. Doubtless prop. “having the stomach full of gor = filth, half-digested food”. *gor-mǫgóttr. For the first part of the compd. see gor, sb.; for the second part see moget, adj.

gormolg [gȯrmȯⁱlg·, gȯrmȯᶅg·] and gormoll [gȯrmȯᶅ·], vb., to cover with a layer of dirt; to soil; to g. anesell [‘oneself’], to soil oneself, esp. the face; du ’s [‘you have’] gor-

molget (gormollet) dy face. The word is mostly vb. a., but is also used as vb. n.: to root in dirt; to do a dirty piece of work; du is gormollin (gormolgin) i’ yon [‘that’] a long time (Y^h.); to gormoll in a sheep’s guts (U^wg.). Ai. (W.B.): gormolg; Y. (Y^h.): gormolg, gormoll. U.: gormoll. — Perf. part. gormolget, gormollet, is freq. used as an adj., in sense ol: a) soiled; covered with a layer of dirt, e.g. of the face, of clothes; b) insignificant in appearance, also good-for-nothing, whether an animal or a human being; a gormollet ting (body). In sense b noted down in Fe. c) gruff and peevish, stubborn. Fe.? From Uⁿ. is reported a form gormoltet [gȯrmȯ‘ᶅ·tət, -mɔ‘ᶅ·tət, gər-] In sense of soiled, dirty. In Nm. and in Fe. also with initial k for g: kormollet [kȯrmȯᶅ·ət]. In sense c the word is noted down only in the form kormollet. — Prob. *gor-mygla, vb., and *gor-myglaðr, perf. part. and adj. gormoltet seems, however, to presuppose a *gor-myglðr or -mygltr. The first part of the compd. is gor, sb., mire; mud; the second part is O.N. mygla, vb., to grow musty, myglaðr (Icel.), adj., musty, Shetl. molget (q.v.). — kormollet, adj. (q.v.), noted down in Sa., is another word than the gormollet treated here.

gorpog [gȯ‘rpåg], sb., derisive term, applied to a small, insignificant person; a little-wort’ g. U. Also (mockingly or jokingly) of a small horse, pony (Edm.: gur-pug). Prob. *gorpoki; O.N. gor, n., half-digested food in the intestines of animals; O.N. poki, m., a poke; pouch. Cf. No. gorpose, m., (prop. = gorsekk, a large stomach, a glutton) as a derisive term applied to a little boy (adept at eating, but not at work), and Sw. dial. gorpose (“gårpåse”),