Gentleman of three outs.
That is, without money,
without wit, and without manners:
some add another
out, i.e. without credit.
Gentry cove. A gentleman. Cant.
Gentry cove ken. A gentleman’s house. Cant.
Gentry mort. A gentlewoman.
George. Yellow George; a guinea. Brown
George: an
ammunition loaf.
German duck. Haifa sheep’s head boiled with onions.
Get. One of his get; one of his offspring, or begetting.
Gib cat. A northern name for a he cat,
there commonly
called Gilbert. As melancholy as
a gib cat; as melancholy
as a he cat who has been caterwauling,
whence they
always return scratched, hungry, and out
of spirits.
Aristotle says, Omne animal post coitum
est triste; to which an
anonymous author has given the following
exception,
preter gallum gallinaceum, et sucerdotem
gratis fornicantem.
Gibberish. The cant language of thieves
and gypsies,
called Pedlars’ French, and St.
Giles’s Greek: see st.
Giles’s Greek. Also
the mystic language of Geber,
used by chymists. Gibberish likewise
means a sort of
disguised language, formed by inserting
any consonant
between each syllable of an English word;
in which case it
is called the gibberish of the letter
inserted: if F, it is the
F gibberish; if G, the G gibberish; as
in the sentence
How do you do? Howg dog youg dog.
GIBBE. A horse that shrinks from the collar and
will not
draw.
Giblets. To join giblets; said of a man
and woman who
cohabit as husband and wife, without being
married;
also to copulate.
Gibson, or sir John Gibbon, A
two-legged stool, used to
support the body of a coach whilst finishing.
Gifts. Small white specks under the finger
nails, said to
portend gifts or presents. A stingy
man is said to be
as full of gifts as a brazen horse of
his farts.
Gift of the gab. A facility of speech.
Gigg. A nose. Snitchel his gigg; fillip
his nose. Grunter’s
gigg; a hog’s snout. Gigg is
also a high one-horse
chaise, and a woman’s privities.
To gigg a Smithfield
hank; to hamstring an over-drove ox, vulgarly
called a
mad bullock.
Gigger. A latch, or door. Dub the gigger;
open the
door. Gigger dubber; the turnkey
of a jaol.
To giggle. To suppress a laugh. Gigglers; wanton women.
Giles’s or st. Giles’s
breed. Fat, ragged, and saucy;
Newton and Dyot streets, the grand head-quarters-of
most
of the thieves and pickpockets about London,
are in St. Giles’s
Giles’s parish. St. Giles’s
Greek; the cant language,
called also Slang, Pedlars’ French,
and Flash.


