Har″um–scar″um (hâr″ŭm‐skâr″ŭm), 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.
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Webster's Dictionary 1913
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.