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English
Etymology
From gomer "an undesirable hospital patient", with French -e, by analogy to feminine nouns in French, such as cuisinière.
Noun
gomere (plural gomeres)
- (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, 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!"
2019, Samuel Shem, Man's 4th Best Hospital, page 178:It was called the Rose Room because for some strange reason the four beds were always occupied by gomeres named Rose. In fact, one of them, my patient, was named Rose Budz.
References
- John Algeo (1991) Fifty Years Among the New Words, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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