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orming

adj · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • /ˈɔːmɪŋ/

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adj

Meaning 1

Talk and awkward

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • Niver a baby had eyes, As sulking and ormin' as thine D.H. Lawrence (1903), Love Poems
  • Mrs. Goodall fairly hated the sound of correct English. She thee'd and tha'd her prospective daughter-in-law, and said, 'I'm none as orming as I look, seest ta.' Fanny did not think her prospective mother-in-law looked at all orming. England My England 261 (1922)
  • There are many adjectives in the Selston dialect which are lexically interesting, like "throng" [θrɔŋ] (busy) are well known in northern dialects; others, for instance "ormin" [ɔːmɪn] (large and ungainly) are not recorded in EDD as used outside Nottinghamshire. Jeremy G. Storr (1977), Survey of the Dialect of Selston in the Erewash Valley, page 255.

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