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gaum-like

gaum-like adjective: sensible; understanding.

Adjective

gaum-like (comparative more gaum-like, superlative most gaum-like)

  1. (UK, dialectal) Sensible; 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

Forms of gaum-like

comparativemore gaum-like
superlativemost gaum-like
alternative formgaumlike

Origin of gaum-like

From gaum + -like.

Questions about gaum-like

What does gaum-like mean?
Gaum-like means sensible; understanding.
What part of speech is gaum-like?
Gaum-like is an adjective.

Words near gaum-like in the dictionary

  1. Gaultney
  2. Gaultneys
  3. Gaultois
  4. gaults
  5. gaum
  6. gaum-like
  7. gaumed
  8. Gaumer
  9. Gaumers
  10. gauming
  11. gaumish

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