(12-26-2014, 04:28 PM)STS Lincolnite Wrote: What exactly did the term harum scarum mean back in those days?
Here's the etymology:
"Harum-scarum"- 1670s (adv.), probably a compound of obsolete hare (v.) "harry" + scare (v.), with 'um as a reduced form of them. As an adjective from 1751; as a noun from 1784.