gomey

gomey
n Irish
a stupid person. The word is related to the Scottish gommie and the American gomer, all deriving from older dialect words for a simpleton which in turn come from the Old English guma, meaning man, which is a cognate of the Latin humanus and the word from which (bride)groom derives.

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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