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▪ I. † gomer1 Obs.
Also 4 goomor, 4–5 gomor.
[a. L. gomor, Gr. γοµόρ, transliteration of Heb. ﻋōmer: see omer.]
A Hebrew measure = omer; sometimes confused with homer2.
c1000ælfric Exod. xvi. 16 An ᵹemetfæt full, þe hiᵹ gomor heton. 1382Wyclif Exod. xvi. 22 Thei gadreden..two gomors bi eche man. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xix. cxxviii. (1495) 933 Gomor [= homer] is a mesure of xl modius (as Isider sayth). c1450Mirour Saluacioun 1832 And ilk one b[r]ot o Gomor of manna home. 1579Fulke Heskins' Parl. 353 They had two gomers full. a1631Donne Serm. xxxi. (1640) 308 Nor satisfied with his Gomer of Manna.
▪ II. gomer, n.3 slang (derogatory).
Brit. |ˈgəʊmə|, U.S. |ˈgoʊmər|
Forms: 19– gomar, 19– Gomer, 19– gomer, 19– goomer
[Probably originally ‹ the name of Gomer Pyle, U.S. television character portrayed as an ignorant rustic (introduced in The Andy Griffith Show (first broadcast in 1960 on CBS), later featured in Gomer Pyle, USMC (first broadcast in 1964 on CBS); for a fuller discussion, see Amer. Speech (1989) 64 153–6. In sense 2 often explained as an acronym ‹ the initial letters of get out of my emergency room, but this is likely to be a later rationalization.]
1. orig. and chiefly U.S. Mil.
a. An inept or stupid colleague, esp. a trainee; (also) a member of the U.S. Marine Corps.
1967H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang Suppl. 687/1 Gomer, gomar, a first-year or naive Air Force cadet. 1991L. Reinberg In Field 95/1 Gomer, army nickname for a marine. 1992Wall St. Jrnl. 29 Dec. a4/6 Their lieutenant later criticizes the corporal, but they ignore him. (‘He's a Gomer. Get us all killed someday,’ says one squad member.)
b. An enemy soldier, an adversary in combat or in combat training; (originally and esp.) a member or supporter of the North Vietnamese forces during the Vietnam War.
1978T. Carroll & P. J. O'Rourke in National Lampoon July 67/1 Goomers,..our enemies. 1987H. Zeybel Gunship 172 Some non-Christian Gomers who couldn't speak English Were shooting at us with a Communist gun. 2000T. Clancy Bear & Dragon li. 795 He'd gotten four kills over Saudi the previous year, drowning those poor dumb ragheaded gomers who flew for the country that had brought biological warfare to his own nation.
2. U.S. Among members of the medical profession: a difficult or disagreeable patient, esp. an elderly one.
V. George and A. Dundes, in The Gomer: A Figure of American Hospital Folk Speech, Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 91 571–2, cite (without quoting) an example collected from a nurse in December 1964.
1972M. Olshan in National Lampoon July 76/3 Gomer, a senile, messy, or highly unpleasant patient. 1978Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 91 580 The gomer is considered to be a Medicare abuser... The personal hygiene and habits of the gomer are so repugnant and distasteful as to prove offensive even to the most hardened and dispassionate staff member. 1982M. Medved Hospital 215 The gomers are so sick, their lives are so miserable, that we're not doing them any favors by keeping them alive. 2001N.Y. Times 13 May iv. 7/2 Gomer, any undesirable patient, usually one that is unkempt, demented, combative or any combination of the above. |