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Rh guls [go‘ls],, to talk loudly, in a blustering manner, to clamour. ,  gulsa,, to rush forward, applied to masses of air or liquid.

gulsa [go’lsago‘lsa [sic]],, jaundice. — -girs [‘grass’], a plant, bogbean, used as a remedy against jaundice. -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). — gulusótt,, jaundice.

gum$1$ [gūm],, the gums, palate; in its old form with a long u-sound, now indeed only preserved in the “ [gūm]-stick”, fishermen’s sea-term, tabu-name for the so-called - or -tree (-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. gómi,, the palate, and gómr,, the gums, palate.

gum$2$ [gūm, gôm],, mind; temper; feeling, in the  “ill g.”, ill-will, temporary ill-will; to ha’e [‘have’] a ill g. at ane [‘one’], to bear enmity or ill-will against someone.  and : gūm. and gaumr (gǫumr),, heed; attention. The vowel-sound in “gūm” points, however, towards an association with, , from “(gá) gǫ́”, with “gaum(r)”; see , —  the  word.
 * gôm. — gaum (gǫum), ,

$$“gum”,, to pay attention; notice. Barclay: gume. Not reported, the pronunciation therefore uncertain, but the vowel-sound is the same as in $2$,, a long u or a long close o; “, to notice”, is found as a marginal note under, , , in Barclay’s manuscript supplementto Edm. — Is doubtless gøyma (geyma), , to pay attention,, with a later dropping of i-mutation through of $2$,

gumbet [gombət] and gombet [gȯmbət], , coarse of appearance, repulsive, g.-lookin’. Sometimes also of weather: ill-boding, hazy and windy; g.-like wadder [‘weather’] or sky. In the first-mentioned sense to be classed with gamp, , a big, coarse (strong) body; a heavy, clumsy person. Might, however, like the  (from with “gumma”,, which in denotes a ewe. The use of ,  to the weather, may be due to an extension of the original use of the word.
 * gumsa,, a ewe), also be associated

gumbos [gombȯs] and gombos [gȯmbȯs],, 1) uproar, noise, noisy running about; what are ye hadin’ sicc [‘holding such’] a g. aboot? [gȯmbȯs]. 2) vexed or angry state of mind, testiness; he cam’ in a g.; [gombȯs]. — The word doubtless denotes a) jumping; b) swinging or wriggling one’s body. gimpa, g. (paa) seg,, to swing one’s shoulders,, gump, , a push; buffet, gimpa and gumpa,, to wriggle one’s hips; to jump heavily and clumsily. 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. —, , and the  word.

gumpelfik [go‘m··pəlfɩk·],, restlessness; bustling. ? gumplfeck: Edm. The second part of the is, , bustle, (fidgety) trifling. For the first part, see the above-mentioned under , and, with to the form, “gumpelvak”, denoting a shoal of fish gamboling on the surface of the water. — from is a)