gomere

English

Etymology

From gomer "an undesirable hospital patient", by analogy to feminine nouns in French, such as cuisinière.

Noun

gomere (plural gomeres)

  1. (rare, slang, derogatory) A female gomer; a female hospital patient who is unpleasant to treat or who does not respond to treatment.
    • 1978, Samuel Shem, The House of God, page 38:
      Ina Goober, whom I admitted six times last year. A gomer, or rather, the feminine, gomere.
    • 1996, Jeffrey E. Nash and James M. Calonico, The Meaning of Social Interaction: An Introduction to Social Psychology, page 139:
      "Did you buff that gomere?" "Sure thing, I buffed her, and they turfed her to urology, but she bounced back to me!"

References

  • John Algeo (1991) Fifty Years Among the New Words, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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