I’m gormed, phr. (popular).—A profane oath. See Gaum.
1849. Dickens, David Copperfield, ch. iii. If it [his generosity] were ever referred to, … he struck the table a heavy blow with his right hand (had split it on one such occasion), and swore a dreadful oath that he would be gormed if he didn’t cut and run for good, if it was ever mentioned again.
1883. Punch, May 19, p. 230, c. 2. Why, of course I hardly expects to be believed, but I’m gormed if there was more than six of one and half-a-dozen of the other.
1884. Julian Sturgis, in Longman’s Mag., iii., 623. ‘Gormed if there ain’t that old parson again!’ cried Henry, with enthusiasm.
Gormagon, subs. (old).—See quots.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. A monster with six eyes, three mouths, four arms, eight legs, five on one side and three on the other, three arses, two tarses, and a cunt upon its back; a man on horseback with a woman behind him.
1892. Fennell, Stanford Dict., s.v., Gormagon … a member of an English Secret Society which existed in the second quarter of 18 c.
Gormy-ruddles, subs. (common).—The intestines.
Gorram (or Goram).—See By Goldam.
Gorry.—See By Gorry!