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| giblet(1) | giblets: The heart, liver, gizzard etc. of a goose, duck or chicken
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| gig-men¹ |
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| gig² | one who has been made a fool of [OED]
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| Gig¹ |
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| Gill |
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| Gilpin¹ | Hero of “The Diverting History of John Gilpin” a poem by William Cowper in which Gilpin’s horse runs away with him.
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| ginger¹ | To introduce ginger into a horse's anus to make it move in a lively manner, with the tail held high, and thus appear youthful and spirited [OED]
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| gingham¹ | A type of cotton fabric typically having a checked pattern woven from contrasting white and coloured yarns; a pattern or fabric of this kind; a piece of this fabric. [OED]
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| glen¹ | Glen: A valley or hollow gen. traversed by a stream or river, usu. but not necessarily narrow and with steep sides; in longer rivers connoting the mountain valley in the upper reaches as opposed to the strath or broader vale below. [Dictionary of the Scots Language]
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| glossed_item¹ | will reveal the meaning of a word or phrase - followed by the source of the definition [OED] means Oxford English Dictionary OR - information about a place or object OR - information about a real person. The words of glossed phrases are concatenated with underscores (_) which do not appear in the source text.
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| gobbin(1) | An unintelligent or uneducated person; a fool, an idiot [OED]
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| gold bobbing | Meaning unknown
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| Goliah(1) |
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| goo(1) | It may mean "taste" from the French "goût". Thousands of French aristocrats fled to England during the French Revolution and there were about 40,000 French immigrants in Britain by 1800 [Ref: Murray, Venetia; High Society : A Social History of the Regency Period, 1788-1830]
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| good-men | Husband [OED]
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| Good_lack¹ | An exclamation [OED]
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| goose¹ | A tailor's smoothing-iron. (So called from the resemblance of the handle to the shape of a goose's neck.)
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| Gouffer | Gofer: A thin batter-cake on which a honeycomb pattern is stamped by the iron plates between which it is baked. [OED]
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| gout¹ | A specific constitutional disease occurring in paroxysms, usually hereditary and in male subjects; characterized by painful inflammation of the smaller joints, esp. that of the great toe, and the deposition of sodium urate in the form of chalk-stones; it often spreads to the larger joints and the internal organs. [OED]
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| go_to_pot¹ | to be ruined or destroyed, to deteriorate, to go to pieces. [OED]
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