And all girls gorm love, or try to gorm it.
He gormed the fireplace, standing there
With coat tails to the flame
With easy grace, without a care
For us who, shivering, came.
He gormed the magazines, and sat
On papers by the dozen;
But at our club we’re used to that—
Our gormid English cousin!
Gow´yop, n. 1. A state of perplexity, wherein familiar persons or things seem strange. 2. A person in an unfamiliar guise.
Have you ever been “turned around,” coming out of a theatre, after an exciting play? Right is left and west is east. You are in a gowyop. It is long before you can turn yourself about and make the world seem normal.
The husband who has just shaved off his beard is a gowyop to his wife. And his wife is a gowyop, after she has tinted her hair bright red. (See Spigg.)
The gowyop is like that room you see in the mirror,—so like, and yet so different. Your house, the day after the funeral, is a gowyop—everything seems so strange.
A pretty child, with his two front teeth out; a person you haven’t seen for many years and you now behold grown up; a son or a daughter who has just been married, are gowyops. So is the dignified old gentleman in the bathing suit. Or, that aristocratic dowager, who, when the house is on fire, appears in her night-gown; and your cook, when she is “dressed up.”
To the bachelor of science, returning after four years at college, home is a gowyop, too. (See Thusk.)
All in a gowyop I descried
An unfamiliar world;
All upside down, I vainly tried
To get myself uncurled.