Meaning of gaum-like | Babel Free

Definitions

Sensible; understanding.

UK, dialectal

Examples

“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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