gaumless
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of gaumless
1740–50; dial. ( Scots, N England) gaum heed, attention ( Middle English gome < Old Norse gaumr; akin to Gothic gaumjan to observe) + -less
Example Sentences
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Ryder's attempts at decoration -- mirror frames, screens and so forth -- look naive and gaumless compared with the more polished work of Tiffany or John La Farge.
From Time Magazine Archive
The main character is gaumless in the first chapters and a functioning human male at the end, simply because the author has decreed a character transplant.
From Time Magazine Archive
For all his bluster, he’s a gaumless nowt, With neither guts nor gall.
From Krindlesyke by Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson
Aw dooant say onny fellies has been;—tha should know th' best, but awm nawther blind nor gaumless.
From Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley by Hartley, John
A'a, tha gurt gaumless fooil!" sed his hont, "couldn't ta see a cat an' three kittens?
From Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley by Hartley, John
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