What a daft gomeril she'd been!

"You'll think me a stubborn gomeril, I know, but Keith Buchanan seemed sincere."

"Fah, do ye take me for a gomeril?

"And me niver suspicting it, the gomeril I am," wailed Judy.

"Nay, 'tis a bloody gomeril, I am.

Creator ingenuity ... but dammit, Occy, there's something uncanny about that big gomeril."

'Tis little ye know, ye interfering gomeril."

"Ye're maybe the most stubborn gomerel between here and Aberdeen, no?"

The trap door in the kitchen, ye gomerel.

Nay, of course not, nor the whole street staring, ye crack-brained gomerel.

'Ye'd better put these back, ye auld gomerel, he said rudely.

'Because I do love ye, for all you're a thick-headed, slackwitted, lack-brained gomerel.

Sir Wat said, "Ye gomerel: if that's right, why the devil didn't you watch that first letter?

"So there ye are, ye hell-tarnished gomerel!"

"He's ashamed, the wee French gomerel," Marsali said matter-of-factly, confirming my supposition.

"I merely pointed out-" "That boy," bellowed Sir Wat, "was a shilpit, shiftless, shilly-shallying gomerel before he met up with Francis Crawford.