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
"They say he's no good at anything—a harmless mafflin; he was a long gaumless gawky when he went awa," said Richard Turnbull.
From J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 3 by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
But He don't laik about His wark, ��� Or stop to hark to t' birds; He minds His business, does the Lord, ��� An' wastes no gaumless words.
From Songs of the Ridings by Moorman, Frederic William
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