gaum-like
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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-shearing fra' Whitehaven; [...]"
Etymology
From gaum + -like.
Word Breakdown
Usage
- British usage
Inflected Forms
more gaum-like (comparative)
most gaum-like (superlative)
gaumlike (alternative)