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Friday 2 June 2017

Word To Use Today: slorm.

Slorm might sound like the domain of some particularly irritable dragon, but it's a very useful word indeed. In fact those of us not from the Midlands of England, where slorm has its home, have been missing out on a treat.

Slorm, you see, means to wipe carelessly.

And surely a day never passes when we don't feel at least tempted to do that.



Word To Use Today: slorm. This word comes from the English Midlands, but I haven't been able to discover where this word comes from historically before that. Sl- is often used for sticky and messy things, though - slick, slop, and slosh, for example - so my guess is that this word, like Topsy, just growed.


5 comments:

  1. I never encountered this meaning For us 'slorming about' meant 'lounging about'. (This was in Derbyshire)

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  2. My husband uses the word to describe food that has been coated in a sauce he does not like as in, ‘the sandwich was slormed in mustard’,

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  3. How interesting, Twinkle: thank you! That seems like an extension of the slorming I know, as it's concerned with a coating of something reprehensible and probably fairly disgusting. Like mustard, in fact!

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  4. My Derby/Notts grandmother coined the term to describe a very relaxed, even sloppy posturem especially spreading oneself half-in, half-out of a chair. Almosdt sliding oput of it. Has now been used as family expression for best part of 70 years.

    My Nana was not a Mrs Malaprop but sdhe did invent or reuses workd, like kee-kawing was to lean a (e.g. dining) chair back on it back two legs.


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