gaum-like

English

Alternative forms
  • gaumlike

Etymology

From gaum +‎ -like.

Adjective

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

  1. (Britain, dialectal) Sensible; understanding.
    • 2014, Elizabeth Gaskell, Sylvia's Lovers:
      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; [...]
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