Wordie: Harum-scarum: Comments

Comment by yarb, about 1 month ago

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:09:49 +0000

Delightful as she was in other people's houses, she was still more naively fascinating in her own quaint and somewhat harum-scarum domicile...

- Harold Frederic, The Damnation of Theron Ware, ch. 2

Comment by Minerva, 8 months ago

Sun, 16 Dec 2007 23:22:30 +0000

My little harum-scarum beauty knows not what strange histories every woman living, who has had the least independence of will, could tell her, were such to be as communicative as she is...

Lovelace to Belford, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson

Comment by chained_bear, 10 months ago

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:25:47 +0000

Uhh... No. At least, not that I know of. There are some with pretty doofy titles though.

Comment by reesetee, 10 months ago

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:18:14 +0000

Hmm. Is there a fife tune called pell-mell, too?

I think this came from "hare 'em, scare 'em" originally. "Hare it" once meant "to run with great speed" (like a rabbit or hare). You ask me, the "scare 'em" part should have come first, though. :-)

Comment by chained_bear, 10 months ago

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:22:45 +0000

Intellesting. I didn't know this was a real word. It's quite a famous fife tune.
Well, if I'd thought about it at all, I might have figured someone named it that for a reason...