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gaum-like en · ADJ

Etymology

From gaum + -like.

Meanings

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:

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