| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Harum Scarum | Harum Scarum is a 1965 musical film and comedy starring Elvis Presley. (references) | ||
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| Harum scarum | Literature | 1: "Who's there? I s'pose young harum-scarum." 2: Cambridge Facetiae Collegian and Porter 3: A hare-brained person who scares quiet folk. Some derive it from the French clameur de Haro (hue and cry), as if the madcap was one against whom the hue-and-cry is raised; but probably it is simply a jingle word having allusion to the "madness of a March hare, " and the "scaring" of honest folks from their proprieties. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Harum scarum | Slang in 1811 | HARUM SCARUM. He was running harum scarum; said of any one running or walking hastily, and in a hurry, after they know not what. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
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