Maumish vs Gaumish - What's the difference?
maumish | gaumish |
Intelligent, perceptive.
* 1898 , Richard Blakeborough, Wit, Character, Folklore & Customs of the North Riding of Yorkshire , page 218:
* 1901 , Charles Frederick Morris, Vowel-sounds of the East Yorkshire Folk-speech , page 19:
* 1938 , Mary Manning, Mount Venus , page 193:
As adjectives the difference between maumish and gaumish
is that maumish is while gaumish is intelligent, perceptive.gaumish
English
Adjective
(-)- Those who happen to be deficient in that particular quality come in for no unfrequent reproofs and warnings from their more ‘gaumish ’ fellows.
- 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.
- Dan, a gaumish , freckled youth, grinned sheepishly and said 'Tank ye' at intervals for no apparent reason.