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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

gaumish en · ADJ

Etymology

From gaum + -ish.

Meanings

  1. (UK, dialectal, not-comparable, rare) Intelligent, perceptive.
    • 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:
    • 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:
    • Dan, a gaumish, freckled youth, grinned sheepishly and said 'Tank ye' at intervals for no apparent reason. 1938, Mary Manning, Mount Venus, page 193: