ormingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

orming (comparative more orming, superlative most orming)

1. (Nottinghamshire) Talk and awkward
   • Niver a baby had eyes, As sulking and ormin' as thine

     D.H. Lawrence (1903), Love Poems

   • Mrs. Goodall fairly hated the sound of correct English. She thee'd and tha'd her prospective daughter-in-law, and said, 'I'm none as orming as I look, seest ta.' Fanny did not think her prospective mother-in-law looked at all orming.

     England My England 261 (1922)

   • There are many adjectives in the Selston dialect which are lexically interesting, like "throng" [θrɔŋ] (busy) are well known in northern dialects; others, for instance "ormin" [ɔːmɪn] (large and ungainly) are not recorded in EDD as used outside Nottinghamshire.

     Jeremy G. Storr (1977), Survey of the Dialect of Selston in the Erewash Valley, page 255.