gormaw Sc. and north. dial.
Also 8–9 gorma(h, 9 gormer, gormow. See also goul-mau.
[? f. gore n.1 + maw; cf. gorbelly.]
The cormorant.
| 1500–20 Dunbar Poems xxxiii. 77 The golk, the gormaw, and the gled, Beft him with buffettis quhill he bled. 1722 Ramsay Eagle & Robin Redbr. 15 Greidy Gleds and slie Gormahs. 1847–78 Halliwell, Gorma, a cormorant. North. 1893 Northumbld. Gloss., Gormer, the cormorant. |
b. (See quot.)
| 1808–80 Jamieson, Gormaw,..a glutton, Lanarks. 1878 Cumbld. Gloss., Gormow, a clownish fellow; sometimes applied to a great eater. |