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Example sentences for: gaumy
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In the kitchen the baker before baking her bread must make the dough gaumy, by which she meant moist enough.
One wonders how gaumy the dough was that Thoreau mentions when he tells us that his mother left a bowl of dough overnight to rise, only to find the cate the next morning comfortably enthroned on the dough.
OED2e calls gaumy a rare word and offers the alternate spelling gormy .
• Could the necessity for dough to be gaumy or gormy (On Good Terms) be a precursor of the term gormless meaning stupid, dull?