goomer

gomer

slang

1. Someone who is unsophisticated 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. When I knew John, he was a total gomer, but I guess he's converted to city life now. Why would you take your shoes off in the middle of a splashy work event? Are you a gomer?

2. 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? What if she's not actually a gomer, though? She is 90 years old, after all! Pretty sure he's a gomer—last week, he was in here for a cough that started 17 years ago, and, today, he has "really bad" headache.

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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

verb

See gomer

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