Talk:gurmy

RFV discussion: November 2023–January 2024
This is defined as A level; a mine working. and comes from Webster 1913.

I'm pretty sure this is a mistaken back-formation from, which is an alternative form of , which is an old mining term in Cornwall for the space left in the ground after a mining lode has been extracted. This, in turn, is borrowed from Cornish, and the plural is actually.

The OED entry for states "(By some recent writers used as plural.)", but I can't find any evidence that that actually applies here. Theknightwho (talk) 00:09, 26 November 2023 (UTC)


 * RFV-failed, I can't find any uses, only mentions. I can't find gurmies, either, so I'm RFVing that one too. - -sche (discuss) 02:19, 13 January 2024 (UTC)