gormaw
Middle Scots
[edit]Etymology
[edit]The second term is derved from maw (“gull”) (compare with English maw, mew), although OED points to maw (“stomach”) as its origin instead. The first term might be derived from gore according to OED, although DOST claims this initial element is obscure.
Noun
[edit]gormaw
Further reading
[edit]- “gormaw, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
- “gormaw, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
