15 August 2017

gomerel or gomeral, gomeril

[gom-er-uh l]

noun, Scot. and North England.

1. a fool.

Origin of gomerel

Old English

1805-1815; obsolete gome man ( Old English guma; cognate with Gothic guma, Latin homō) + -rel

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Examples from the Web for gomerel

Historical Examples

Eden stared at her friend with the astonishment of a gomeril at a contortionist.
Eden
Edgar Saltus

Wasn’t she the jewel of the world altogether, an’ how could he ever have been such a gomeril as to doubt her?
North, South and Over the Sea
M.E. Francis (Mrs. Francis Blundell)

Anagram

mere log
more leg
gem lore

Today’s quote

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

– Mahatma Gandhi

On this day

15 August 1769 – birth of Napoleon Bonaparte, French Emperor. Died 5 May 1821.

15 August 1945 – Japan announces its surrender to the Allies following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The official ‘Instrument of Surrender’ was signed on 2 September 1945.

15 August 1947 – India Independence Day. At the stroke of midnight (14/15 August), India was partitioned and granted independence from British rule.

15 – 18 August 1969 – the Woodstock Music & Art Fair (or just ‘Woodstock’), a festival of peace and music, was held over three days at Max Yasgur’s dairy farm, 69 kilometres south-west of the town of Woodstock in New York State. It featured artists such as Joan Baez, Ravi Shankar, Arlo Guthrie, Mountain, the Grateful Dead, Canned Heat, Janis Joplin, The Who, Jefferson Airplane, Joe Cocker, Jimi Hendrix, Cosby Stills Nash and Young, Blood Sweat and Tears, Ten Years After. A number of high profile musicians declined to play, including The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, Chicago, The Byrds, Jethro Tull, Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention, Iron Butterfly and Joni Mitchell. Woodstock is still considered to be the ultimate rock and counter-cultural festival. The promoters hoped for 50,000 to attend and were caught unprepared when more than 500,000 people attended.