harum-scarum : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: harum-scarum	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for harum-scarum
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
harum-scarum adv in a wild or reckless manner; "dashing harum-scarum all over the place"; "running pell-mell up the stairs" Synonym(s): harum-scarum, pell-mell adj cheerfully irresponsible; "carefree with his money"; "freewheeling urban youths"; "had a harum-scarum youth" Synonym(s): carefree, devil-may-care, freewheeling, happy-go-lucky, harum-scarum, slaphappy n a reckless impetuous irresponsible person [syn: daredevil, madcap, hothead, swashbuckler, lunatic, harum-scarum]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Harum-scarum \Har"um-scar"um\, a. [Cf. hare,v. t., and scare, v. t.] Wild; giddy; flighty; rash; thoughtless. [Colloq.] They had a quarrel with Sir Thomas Newcome's own son, a harum-scarum lad. --Thackeray.