Har"um-scar"um (?), a. [Cf. hare,v. t., and scare, v. t.]
Wild; giddy; flighty; rash; thoughtless.
They had a quarrel with Sir Thomas Newcome's own son, a harum-scarum lad. Thackeray.
© Webster 1913.
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