Wednesday’s Word
Word: Glom (Adj. or V.) (spelled ‘cruise’)
Definition: to grasp
Usage:
“Get your great. glomming paws out of that peanut butter fudge. Your sister might want a dite, you know.”
Or:
“When Edwin saw those brand new work gloves going for fifty cents at the auction, he glommed right onto the whole lot of them. Nobody else got a single pair.”
(Definition from: “How To Talk Yankee”, by Gerald Lewis & Tim Sample, copyright 1979, 1986 by The Thorndike Press; copyright 1989 by the First North Country Press)
Labels: How to Talk Yankee, Wednesday's Word
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