Meaning of gaumish | Babel Free

Definitions

Intelligent, perceptive.

UK, dialectal, not-comparable, rare

Examples

“Those who happen to be deficient in that particular quality come in for no unfrequent reproofs and warnings from their more ‘gaumish’ fellows.”

“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.”

“Dan, a gaumish, freckled youth, grinned sheepishly and said 'Tank ye' at intervals for no apparent reason.”

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