What does gaumish mean?
Gaumish means (UK, dialectal, rare) Intelligent, perceptive..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(UK, dialectal, rare) Intelligent, perceptive..
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.
Dan, a gaumish, freckled youth, grinned sheepishly and said 'Tank ye' at intervals for no apparent reason.
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Gaumish means (UK, dialectal, rare) Intelligent, perceptive..
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Those who happen to be deficient in that particular quality come in for no unfrequent reproofs and warnings from their more ‘gaumish’ fellows.
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