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.
I never encountered this meaning For us 'slorming about' meant 'lounging about'. (This was in Derbyshire)
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DeleteMy 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’,
ReplyDeleteHow 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!
ReplyDeleteMy 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.
ReplyDeleteMy 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.