Meaning of HARUM-SCARUM
| Pronunciation: | | 'hehrum'skarum
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- [n] a reckless impetuous irresponsible person
- [adv] in a wild or reckless manner; "dashing harum-scarum all over the place"; "running pell-mell up the stairs"
- [adj] cheerfully irresponsible; "carefree with his money"; "freewheeling urban youths"; "had a harum-scarum youth"
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| | Synonyms: | | carefree, daredevil, devil-may-care, freewheeling, happy-go-lucky, hothead, irresponsible, lunatic, madcap, pell-mell, slaphappy, swashbuckler |
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| | See Also: | | adventurer, tearaway, venturer | |
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| | Definition: | | Harum Scarum
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| | Definition: | | \Har"um-scar"um\, a. [Cf. hare,v. t., and scare, v.
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Wild; giddy; flighty; rash; thoughtless. [Colloq.]
They had a quarrel with Sir Thomas Newcome's own son, a
harum-scarum lad. --Thackeray.
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| | Related Terms: | | accident-prone, all over, all over hell, boisterous, breakneck, careless, desperate, devil-may-care, every which way, furious, hasty, headlong, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hotheaded, hugger-mugger, hurried, impetuous, in a jumble, in a mess, in a muddle, in confusion, in disarray, in disorder, knockabout, knock-down-and-drag-out, mad, overeager, overenthusiastic, overzealous, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, rambunctious, rampageous, reckless, roisterous, rollicking, rough, rough-and-tumble, rowdy, skimble-skamble, slap-bang, slapdash, wanton, wild, willy-nilly |
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