goomer
gomer
1. slang Someone who is unsophisticated and/or cloddish. Refers to Gomer Pyle, a character on The Andy Griffith Show who exhibited such traits. Did he really wear cut-off shorts to that fancy restaurant? What a gomer.
2. slang A hospital patient who annoys or frustrates doctors, as due to frequent and varied medical complaints. Ugh, that guy's a real gomer—what does he claim is making him sick today?
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
gomer
(ˈgomɚ)1. n. a stupid oaf; a social reject. (From the television character Gomer Pyle.) Who’s that gomer in the overalls?
2. and goomer (ˈgumɚ) n. a person unwelcome in a hospital. (Supposedly an acronym for Get out of my emergency room.) I don’t want that goomer back in the emergency room.
goomer
verbSee gomer
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
- gomer
- blob
- milktoast
- milquetoast
- beef-head
- a bean head
- bean head
- fruit loop
- by nature
- prove (one's) mettle