Noun: gomeral
| Singular | gomeral |
| Plural | gomerals |
Sample Sentences
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[...] to the apparent delectation of immense audiences of gaping gomerals, but to the intense disgust of all sensible people. [1856, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art:]
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"But, you gomeral, you belong to my class, and not to your own!" said the old lord, feeling, with a mixture of pain and amusement and impatience, his own ignorance before the superior and melancholy knowledge of life possessed by this boy. [1875, The Story of Valentine, and his Brother, chapter XXXIX, in The Living Age, volume 124, page 563]
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The same faithful gomeral is to despatch this letter by the express along with those of the wiseacres, so that you may hear Tom Fool in company with Solomon. [1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Tee’d Ball”, in Catriona, London; Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson & Sons, →OCLC, page 221:]
Nouns inflected like gomeral
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *dʰeǵʰ-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-ōm
4. Proto-Indo-European *dʰéǵʰōm
5. Proto-Indo-European *-ō
6. Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰmṓ
7. Proto-Germanic *gumô
8. Proto-West Germanic *gumō
9. Old English guma
10. Middle English gome
11. English -rel
12. English gomeral
13. Diminutive (by way of -rel) of Middle English gōme (“man, warrior, husband, male servant”), Old English guma (“male, hero”), from Proto-Germanic *gumô (“man, person”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰmṓ (“man, person”). More at groom. See: Middle English Nouns '
gome', Old English Nouns '
guma'.
Verbs referencing "gomeral"
Irish Nouns
gamal.