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Definition of Gaumless
1. Adjective. (British informal) lacking intelligence and vitality.
Definition of Gaumless
1. Adjective. (alternative spelling of gormless) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gaumless
1. gormless [adj] - See also: gormless
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gaumless
Literary usage of Gaumless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dialect of Leeds and Its Neighbourhood: Illustrated by Conversations and by C. Clough Robinson (1862)
"Thar't gaumless lad ! mun thar't noan worth thee salt, mich more thee keep ! "
A person dead drunk is always spoken of as ..."
2. A List of Words and Phrases in Every-day Use by the Natives of Hetton-le by Francis Milnes Temple Palgrave (1896)
"gaumless. Evidently the accidentally unrecorded Icel. ... Thou greet gaumless
fuil.'—Richardson. Gay or Gey. Very or thoroughly, as ' a gey feyne day. ..."
3. A Glossary of the Dialect of the Hundred of Lonsdale, North and South of the by Robert Backhouse Peacock (1869)
"Gerse, vt to graze. " To gerse out cattle "= To send them out to gist. ON gresia,
to graze. gaumless, adj. stupid, unobservant, vacant, without much sense ..."
4. A List of Provincial Words in Use at Wakefield in Yorkshire by William Stott Banks (1865)
"Wakefield was first lighted with gas 2oth January, 1823. GAV'LOCK, an iron crowbar
used as a lever. gaumless, vacant,without sense, stupid; ..."
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