English

Adjective

gaumish ‎(not comparable)

1. (Britain, dialectal, rare) Intelligent, perceptive.
   • 1898, Richard Blakeborough, Wit, Character, Folklore & Customs of the North Riding of Yorkshire, page 218:

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

   • 1901, Charles Frederick Morris, Vowel-sounds of the East Yorkshire Folk-speech, page 19:

     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.

   • 1938, Mary Manning, Mount Venus, page 193:

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