Goggles. Eyes: see ogles.
Goggle eyes; large prominent eyes. To
goggle; to stare.
Going upon the dub. Going
out to break open, or pick
the locks of, houses.
Gold droppers. Sharpers who drop a
piece of gold,
which they pick up in the presence of
some unexperienced
person, for whom the trap is laid, this
they pretend to
have found, and, as he saw them pick it
up, they invite
him to a public house to partake of it:
when there, two
or three of their comrades drop in, as
if by accident, and
propose cards, or some other game, when
they seldom fail
of stripping their prey.
Gold Finder. One whose employment is
to empty necessary
houses; called also a tom-turd-man, and
night-man:
the latter, from that business being always
performed in
the night.
Goldfinch. One who has commonly a purse
full of gold.
Goldfinches; guineas.
Golgotha or the place of
sculls. Part of the Theatre
at Oxford, where the heads of houses sit;
those
gentlemen being by the wits of the university
called sculls.
GOLLUMPUS. A large, clumsy fellow.
Goloshes, i.e. Goliah’s shoes.
Large leathern clogs, worn
by invalids over their ordinary shoes.
Good man. A word of various imports,
according to the
place where it is spoken: in the
city it means a rich man;
at Hockley in the Hole, or St. Giles’s,
an expert boxer;
at a bagnio in Covent Garden, a vigorous
fornicator; at
an alehouse or tavern, one who loves his
pot or bottle;
and sometimes, though but rarely, a virtuous
man
Good woman. A nondescript, represented
on a famous
sign in St. Giles’s, in the form
of a common woman. but
without a head.
Goodyer’s pig. Like Goodyer’s
pig; never well but when
in mischief.
Goose. A taylor’s goose; a smoothing
iron used to press
down the seams, for which purpose it must
be heated:
hence it is a jocular saying, that a taylor,
be he ever so
poor, is always sure to have a goose at
his fire. He cannot
say boh to a goose; a saying of a bashful
or sheepish
fellow.
Goose riding. A goose, whose neck is
greased, being suspended
by the legs to a cord tied to two trees
or high posts,
a number of men on horseback, riding full
speed, attempt
to pull off the head: which if they
effect, the goose is
their prize. This has been practised
in Derbyshire within
the memory of persons now living.
Gooseberry. He played up old gooseberry
among them;
said of a person who. by force or threats,
suddenly puts an
end to a riot or disturbance.


