Word Meanings - HARUM-SCARUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Wild; giddy; flighty; rash; thoughtless. They had a quarrel with Sir Thomas Newcome's own son, a harum-scarum lad. Thackeray.

Related words: (words related to HARUM-SCARUM)

• THOMAS PHOSPHATE; THOMAS SLAG
  See ABOVE
• QUARRELING
  Engaged in a quarrel; apt or disposed to quarrel; as, quarreling factions; a quarreling mood. -- Quar"rel*ing*ly, adv.
• GIDDY
  silly, AS. gidig, of unknown origin, cf. Norw. gidda to shake, 1. Having in the head a sensation of whirling or reeling about; having lost the power of preserving the balance of the body, and therefore wavering and inclined to fall; lightheaded;
• THOUGHTLESS
  1. Lacking thought; careless; inconsiderate; rash; as, a thoughtless person, or act. 2. Giddy; gay; dissipated. Johnson. 3. Deficient in reasoning power; stupid; dull. Thoughtless as monarch oaks that shade the plain. Dryden. -- Thought"less*ly,
• HARUM-SCARUM
  Wild; giddy; flighty; rash; thoughtless. They had a quarrel with Sir Thomas Newcome's own son, a harum-scarum lad. Thackeray.
• GIDDY-HEAD
  A person without thought fulness, prudence, or judgment. Burton.
• GIDDY-HEADED
  Thoughtless; unsteady.
• FLIGHTY
  1. Fleeting; swift; transient. The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, Unless the deed go with it. Shak. 2. Indulging in flights, or wild and unrestrained sallies, of imagination, humor, caprice, etc.; given to disorder Proofs of my flighty and
• THOMAS PROCESS
  See ABOVE
• GIDDY-PACED
  Moving irregularly; flighty; fickle. Shak.
• NEWCOME
  Recently come.
• QUARRELLOUS
  Quarrelsome. Shak.
• QUARREL
  Any small square or quadrangular member; as: A square of glass, esp. when set diagonally. A small opening in window tracery, of which the cusps, etc., make the form nearly square. A square or lozenge-shaped paving tile. 3. A glazier's
• QUARRELSOME
  Apt or disposed to quarrel; given to brawls and contention; easily irritated or provoked to contest; irascible; choleric. Syn. -- Pugnacious; irritable; irascible; brawling; choleric; fiery; petulant. -- Quar"rel*some*ly, adv. -- Quar"rel*some*ness,
• NEWCOMER
  One who has lately come.
• QUARRELET
  A little quarrel. See 1st Quarrel, 2. "Quarrelets of pearl ." Herrick.
• SACCHARUM
  A genus of tall tropical grasses including the sugar cane.