Meanings
- UKdialectalnot comparablerareIntelligent, perceptive.
Dan, a gaumish, freckled youth, grinned sheepishly and said 'Tank ye' at intervals for no apparent reason.
1938, Mary Manning, Mount Venus, page 1932 more examples
Those who happen to be deficient in that particular quality come in for no unfrequent reproofs and warnings from their more ‘gaumish’ fellows.
1898, Richard Blakeborough, Wit, Character, Folklore & Customs of the North Riding of Yorkshire, page 218An 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.
1901, Charles Frederick Morris, Vowel-sounds of the East Yorkshire Folk-speech, page 19
Origin
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