Meanings
adjectivegaum-like (comparative more gaum-like, superlative most gaum-like)
comparative more gaum-like · superlative most gaum-like · alternative gaumlike
- UKdialectalSensible; understanding.
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; [...]
1863, Elizabeth Gaskell, Sylvia's Lovers
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