Talk:gaum

I felt like noting this somewhere — Francis Grose's A provincial glossary: with a collection of local proverbs (1811) has this entry: Gawm, to understand; I dinna gawm ye, I don't understand you. Hence, possibly, gawmtion, or gumption, understanding. N. Also smeared over, as his face all gawm'd over. - -sche (discuss) 09:05, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

RFV discussion: February–March 2015

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gaum

RFV-sense of several senses:

• "Attention, understanding."
• "To understand; distinguish; consider" and "to pay attention to; take note of; notice." — Note that I've found two citations that seem to use one of these senses, so if someone can find a thing citation, one of the senses (or an amalgamation of them) should pass.
• "To fear."
• "To handle improperly." — I've found one citation of Jonathan Swift's Polite Conversation ("Don't be mauming and gauming a Body so.") which is frequently parsed as using this sense, even though he uses it alongside mauming and is arguably just using nonsense words. (But if anyone finds two more citations of this sense, I won't quibble over the Swift citation.)

- -sche (discuss) 09:59, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

I do find a couple instances of gaum as a noun in an Indian context, but not with this meaning. See Citations:gaum. - -sche (discuss) 19:58, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

I've managed to cite the "understand" sense. - -sche (discuss) 07:00, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

I've managed to cite the noun as "heed". - -sche (discuss) 09:32, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

RFV-failed several senses. - -sche (discuss) 17:04, 5 March 2015 (UTC)