My, What A Gomb...
I just returned from NC where I participated in a weddin'.
While I was there, my sister reminded me of a real, honest to goodness southern expression.
"We shore Gombed that up right..."
The other two musicians and I who performed at the weddin' were of the general opinion that we gombed up the music pretty good. (Ever-body said we done good, but we knowed we cudda done better...)
To "Gomb" something up means to generally make a mess of it.
You can also "Make a Gomb out of it" or "cause a Gomb" or even "Get Gomb all over something."
Have you ever hear'd of this'n?
Do ya know uv a 'nuther ex-preshun like it?
posted by tugboatcapn @ 8:47 PM
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12 Comments:
Yeah....
Man Iz hurd it. Iz gobbed up a lot o thangs in my life 'for.
I can remember as a boy when I got gum in my hair. It was all gobbed up.
yep, weza gobbin thangs up roun cheer too!
Great post thar tugboatcapn!
Thank'y, thank'y!!
dude i hate it when that happens- but you are a wonderful musician so im sure you were your own worst critic. - miss ya tug :/ you should read my blog- i actually have been writing some- ...did you stop letting people comment on truckerphilosophy?
ROTFALMAO! It's great to read something light once in awhile. The post I write are for the most part political as are most of the posts I visit. Saw your comment on Mark Maness' Blog.
Hey KC, how are you? (We e-mail one another all the time, but never have run into her on a blog before!)
I've never heard "gobbed" up. I've heard "goobered up" (sounds rather nasty). Does "gombo" count. Ate some of that in Louisianna! :)
Hey Gayle,
Thanks for stopping by.
You knowd I'd herd about goobered up too. But not too ofin.
Sumbudy say gumbo!!! Huh?? Where??? Like to get me a sho nuff mouth full of dat stuff!!
Now Ms. Gayle you have yourself a Merry Little Christmas. Come back too. We'll see ya round.
Nooo. I don't recollect ever hearin that'n. If I hold my mouth just right it might come to me tho.
This is a probable source:
Gomb and Gombed may have traveled to America with the Germans in the 1700's. It's old Hungarian for button and buttoned up. Lots of Hugarian words made it across Slovakia and into Switzerland and Germany as the Palentine Christians were persecuted and they moved on. Most of them that came to America landed in Penn. in the 1700-40's and moved out to the West and down the Shannondoah Valley and into North Carolina on the Great Wagon Road.
Gombed also ment getting the button in the wrong button hole, thus it was all Gombed up.
Wow, Dr.Lobo! Thanks!!
I never knew where that came from, (except that I knew it came from Grandma...)
Your explanation makes sense.
That makes me happy!
Ah done larned me sumptin t'day!!
I wus unner the impreshun "Gom" wuz short fer Gomer, as 'n Gomer Pyle?
Shazzam!
Had a Mother n law that would say "We just been sittin' aroun the table messin' and gommin'" They were part German and lived in Lehigh Ok. sure grew some good lookin' daughters, and made for good stock for my daughter to come from.
Really old post, but I started looking up sloppin and gommin, and I found this. My mother always said to me growing up, "Stop sloppin and gommin in that kitchen and get those dishes washed!"
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