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Yes. The word gormy is a Scrabble US word. The word gormy is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word gormy is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

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5-letter words (1 found)

GORMY,

4-letter words (4 found)

GORM,GORY,GYRO,ORGY,

3-letter words (10 found)

GOR,GOY,GYM,MOG,MOR,MOY,ORG,ROM,YGO,YOM,

2-letter words (7 found)

GO,MO,MY,OM,OR,OY,YO,

You can make 22 words from gormy according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of gormy

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Definitions and meaning of gormy

gormy

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɡɔːmi/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡɔɹmi/
  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)mi

Etymology 1

Either:

  • from gorm (“fool; one who is undiscerning”) +‎ -y (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘having the quality of’); or
  • a variant of gaumy (“awkward”), from gaum (“to stare idly or vacantly; to gape, gaze; to be awkward or stupid; a lout; a gaping, idle fellow”) + -y.

Adjective

gormy (not comparable)

  1. (British, chiefly Northern England, US, chiefly New England) Awkward, clumsy, klutzy, ungainly.
    Synonym: gorming
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Etymology 2

From gorm, gaum (“to smear; grime (noun)”) +‎ -y.

Adjective

gormy (not comparable)

  1. (British, US, chiefly Southern US) Alternative spelling of gaumy (“sticky, smeared with something sticky; grimy”)

References

Further reading

  • “gaumy”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
  • Sidney Oldall Addy (1891) A Supplement to the Sheffield Glossary (Series C (Original Glossaries); no. 62), volume 22, number 2, London: […] [F]or the English Dialect Society by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., →OCLC, page 24.
  • John Gould, Lillian Ross (1975) Maine Lingo: Boiled Owls, Billdads & Wazzats, Camden, Me.: Down East Books, →ISBN, page 114.
  • Mildred Jordan Brooks (1992) Southern Stuff: Down-home Talk and Bodacious Lore, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 59: “gormy, adj. Sticky or smeary. “Who wants to pick up a youngun all gormy with butter and ’lasses?””

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