gormless

Word family adjectivegaumygaumlessgormlessverbgaum

gorm·less /ˈɡɔːmləs $ ˈɡɔːrm-/ adjectiveadj British EnglishBrE informal

STUPID/NOT INTELLIGENTvery stupid 傻乎乎的

a gormless grin

咧嘴傻笑

—gormlessly adverbadv

Examples from the Corpus

gormless• He just sat there with his mouth open looking really gormless.• a grinning, gormless boy• She was lolling in bed, her mouth wet and slack like a gormless child's.• There he was, that gormless face, crushed in amongst other gormless faces.• He was gormless, spoke in a funny nasal accent and looked as if he could do with a kick up the backside.• They might be big and slow but there was a sort of gormless unstoppability about them.• And at heart Big Bruv is an improvised soap, a slightly less gormless version of Neighbours.

Origin gormless

(1800-1900) gaumless “lacking understanding” ((18-20 centuries)), from gaum “understanding” ((18-19 centuries)), from Old Norse gaumr “heed, attention”

单词	gormless
释义	gormless Word family adjectivegaumygaumlessgormlessverbgaum gorm·less /ˈɡɔːmləs $ ˈɡɔːrm-/ adjectiveadj British EnglishBrE informal STUPID/NOT INTELLIGENTvery stupid 傻乎乎的 a gormless grin 咧嘴傻笑 —gormlessly adverbadv Examples from the Corpus gormless• He just sat there with his mouth open looking really gormless.• a grinning, gormless boy• She was lolling in bed, her mouth wet and slack like a gormless child's.• There he was, that gormless face, crushed in amongst other gormless faces.• He was gormless, spoke in a funny nasal accent and looked as if he could do with a kick up the backside.• They might be big and slow but there was a sort of gormless unstoppability about them.• And at heart Big Bruv is an improvised soap, a slightly less gormless version of Neighbours. Origin gormless (1800-1900) gaumless “lacking understanding” ((18-20 centuries)), from gaum “understanding” ((18-19 centuries)), from Old Norse gaumr “heed, attention”
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