Synonyms for harum-scarum
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : hair-uhm-skair-uhm, har-uhm-skar-uhm |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈhɛər əmˈskɛər əm, ˈhær əmˈskær əm |
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Définition of harum-scarum
Origin :- 1670s (adv.), probably a compound of obsolete hare (v.) "harry" + scare (v.), with 'um as a reduced form of them. As an adjective from 1751; as a noun from 1784.
- adj reckless
- A harum-scarum fellow, and pretending to a great scorn for all the girls.
- Extract from : « A Set of Six » by Joseph Conrad
- And of how they looked & the harum-scarum things they did & said.
- Extract from : « Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete » by Albert Bigelow Paine
- She's such a wild, harum-scarum thing, and she does love to tease.
- Extract from : « Miss Pat at School » by Pemberton Ginther
- Of course it was a harum-scarum impression, but it gratified them to hold it.
- Extract from : « The Shellback's Progress » by Walter Runciman
- She was only eighteen, and the most harum-scarum creature you ever saw.
- Extract from : « Mary Ware's Promised Land » by Annie Fellows Johnston
- Altogether, it was the noisiest, dustiest, most harum-scarum race that can be imagined!
- Extract from : « When Life Was Young » by C. A. Stephens
- "You always were harum-scarum," remonstrated Aunt Janet, under this outburst.
- Extract from : « To Love » by Margaret Peterson
- And off they would go, on some harum-scarum or other, like a couple of children.
- Extract from : « Old Valentines » by Munson Aldrich Havens
- Now, what sort of harum-scarum trick have you got up your sleeve, Jack?
- Extract from : « Motor Boat Boys Mississippi Cruise » by Louis Arundel
- And of how they looked, and the harum-scarum things they did and said.
- Extract from : « The Letters Of Mark Twain, Volume 4, 1886-1900 » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
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