gaum-like
(UK, dialectal) Sensible; understanding.
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#1·Apr 27, 2026UK
(UK, dialectal) Sensible; understanding.
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-shearin…
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