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Maumish vs Gaumish - What's the difference?

maumish | gaumish |

As adjectives the difference between maumish and gaumish

is that maumish is while gaumish is intelligent, perceptive.

maumish

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

    • gaumish

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • 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.