Meaning of harum-scarum in English:
harum-scarum
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adjective
Reckless; impetuous.
‘a wild harum-scarum youth’- ‘Favourite Gunther McBride set out to make every yard of the running under Richard Johnson, but his jumping was harum-scarum.’
- ‘Van Wyk's narrator, a harum-scarum, hard-drinking journalist called Scara Nhlabatsi, relishes all manner of rude jokes, bawdy abuse, malapropisms and puns and provides a slew of images of the vulgar excess of power.’
- ‘She told me a harum-scarum tale of running through a forest in the middle of the stormy.’
- ‘She had been running for four days now, a harum-scarum tumbling flight through passages and tunnels.’
- ‘Rob Hayles catapulted across our Olympic consciousness at the end of a harum-scarum event called the Madison.’
reckless, impetuous, impulsive, imprudent, rash, wild, daredevil, madcap, precipitous, precipitate, frivolous, hot-headed, hare-brained, giddy, foolhardy, thoughtless, incautious, careless, heedless, hasty, overhastyView synonyms
noun
A reckless, impetuous person.
‘She looked with disfavor upon the young beaver's suit because he was a harum-scarum and a ne'er-do-well.’- ‘But if Mr. Grace failed to sympathize with the harum-scarums, he nonetheless managed them well. He was quite a disciplinarian.’
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