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gaumish

gaumish adjective: intelligent, perceptive.

Adjective

gaumish (not comparable)

  1. (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.1898, Richard Blakeborough, Wit, Character, Folklore & Customs of the North Riding of Yorkshire, page 218
    • 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.1901, Charles Frederick Morris, Vowel-sounds of the East Yorkshire Folk-speech, page 19

Origin of gaumish

From gaum + -ish.

Questions about gaumish

What does gaumish mean?
Gaumish means intelligent, perceptive.
What part of speech is gaumish?
Gaumish is an adjective.

Words near gaumish in the dictionary

  1. gaum-like
  2. gaumed
  3. Gaumer
  4. Gaumers
  5. gauming
  6. gaumish
  7. gaumless
  8. gaumlessness
  9. Gaumond
  10. Gaumonds
  11. gaums

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