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guls [go‘ls], vb., to talk loudly, in a blustering manner, to clamour. Y., Fe. No. gulsa, vb., to rush forward, applied to masses of air or liquid.

gulsa [go’lsa], sb., jaundice. comm. — gulsa-girs [‘grass’], a plant, bogbean, used as a remedy against jaundice. gulsa-snail, g.-shall [‘shell’], g.-whelk, shelled animal or the shell only, used as a remedy against jaundice in cattle (put in the drinking-water). — O.N. gulusótt, f., jaundice.

gum¹ [gūm], sb., the gums, palate; in its old form with a long u-sound, now indeed only preserved in the compd. “gum [gūm]-stick”, fishermen’s sea-term, tabu-name for the so-called kavel- or kavlin-tree (pattel-tree), cylindrical piece of wood with a small crook of iron at the end, for extracting the hook when the fish has swallowed it too far down. O.N. gómi, m., the palate, and gómr, m., the gums, palate.

gum² [gūm, gôm], sb., mind; temper; feeling, esp. in the expr. “ill g.”, ill-will, esp. temporary ill-will; to ha’e [‘have’] a ill g. at ane [‘one’], to bear enmity or ill-will against someone. N.I. U. and Y.: gūm. Fe.: gôm. — O.N. gaum (gǫum), f., and gaumr (gǫumr), m., heed; attention. The vowel-sound in Shetl. “gūm” points, however, towards an association with gudet, adj., from “(gá) gǫ́”, syn. with “gaum(r)”; see godet, adj. — Cf. the foll. word.

^*?“gum”, vb., to pay attention; notice. Barclay: gume. Not reported, the pronunciation therefore uncertain, but the vowel-sound is prob. the same as in gum², sb., a long u or a long close o; q.v. “gume, to notice”, is found as a marginal note under ent, ant, vb., in Barclay’s manuscript supplementto Edm. — Is doubtless O.N. gøyma (geyma), vb., to pay attention, etc., with a

later dropping of i-mutation through infl. of gum², sb.

gumbet [gombət] and gombet [gȯmbət], adj., coarse of appearance, repulsive, g.-lookin’. Sometimes also of weather: ill-boding, hazy and windy; g.-like wadder [‘weather’] or sky. Ai. In the first-mentioned sense poss. to be classed with No. gamp, m., a big, coarse (strong) body; a heavy, clumsy person. Might, however, like the syn. gumset (from *gumsa, f., a ewe), also be associated with “gumma”, f., which in Sw. dial. denotes a ewe. The use of gumbet (gombet), appl. to the weather, may be due to an extension of the original use of the word.

gumbos [gombȯs] and gombos [gȯmbȯs], sb., 1) uproar, noise, noisy running about; what are ye hadin’ sicc [‘holding such’] a g. aboot? U^burr. [gȯmbȯs]. 2) vexed or angry state of mind, testiness; he cam’ in a g.; Nm^s. [gombȯs]. — The word doubtless denotes a) jumping; b) swinging or wriggling one’s body. Cf. No. gimpa, g. (paa) seg, vb., to swing one’s shoulders, etc., gump, m., a push; buffet, Sw. dial. gimpa and gumpa, vb., to wriggle one’s hips; to jump heavily and clumsily. gumbos (gombos) 1 points to an original “gimpa, gumpa” in sense of to jump, spring. The root-meaning of gumbos 2 is wriggling, swinging one’s body. — Cf. gombel, sb., and the foll. word.

gumpelfik [go‘m··pəlfɩk·], sb., restlessness; bustling. U.? gumplfeck: Edm. The second part of the compd. is fik, sb., bustle, (fidgety) trifling. For the first part gumpel, see the above-mentioned etym. under gumbos, and cf., with ref. to the form, No. “gumpelvak”, denoting a shoal of fish gamboling on the surface of the water. — Diff. from gumpelfik is a) gumpelfisti [go‘m·-