Gaumish
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Gaumish is an adjective meaning (UK, dialectal, rare) Intelligent, perceptive.
Meaning
(UK, dialectal, rare) Intelligent, perceptive.
Example Sentences
Dan, a gaumish, freckled youth, grinned sheepishly and said 'Tank ye' at intervals for no apparent reason.
Those who happen to be deficient in that particular quality come in for no unfrequent reproofs and warnings from their more ‘gaumish’ fellows.
An assistant in a grocer's establishment at Middlesbrough — a gaumish young fellow — told me that when he was in a shop at Whitby they had engaged the services of an assistant who was totally unaccustomed to their mode of speech.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include gaum-like, gaumless, gaumy, gawmless, gauvison, gormy.
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