Gaum-like
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Sensible; understanding. UK, dialectal
"She had been farm-servant to my mother's brother--James Hepburn, thy great-uncle as was; she were a poor, friendless wench, a parish 'prentice, but honest and gaum-like, till a lad, as nobody knowed, come o'er the hills one sheep-shearing fra' Whitehaven; [...]"
Example
More examples"She had been farm-servant to my mother's brother--James Hepburn, thy great-uncle as was; she were a poor, friendless wench, a parish 'prentice, but honest and gaum-like, till a lad, as nobody knowed, come o'er the hills one sheep-shearing fra' Whitehaven; [...]"
Etymology
From gaum + -like.
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