Gooseberry-eyed. One with dull grey eyes,
like boiled
gooseberries.
Gooseberry wig. A large frizzled wig:
perhaps from a
supposed likeness to a gooseberry bush.
GOOSECAP. A silly fellow or woman.
Gorger. A gentleman. A well dressed
man. Mung
kiddey. Mung the gorger; beg child
beg, of the gentleman.
Gospel shop. A church.
Goree. Money, chiefly gold: perhaps
from the traffic
carried on at that place, which is chiefly
for gold dust.
Cant.
GORMAGON. A monster with six eyes, three mouths,
four
arms, eight legs, live on one side and
three on the other,
three arses, two tarses, and a *** upon
its back; a man on
horseback, with a woman behind him.
Gotch-gutted. Pot bellied: a gotch
in Norfolk signifying
a pitcher, or large round jug.
To Gouge. To squeeze out a man’s
eye with the thumb:
a cruel practice used by the Bostonians
in America.
To grabble. To seize. To grabble the
bit; to seize any
one’s money. Cant.
Grafted. Cuckolded, i.e. having horns grafted
on his
head.
To Grab. To seize a man. The pigs grabbed
the kiddey
for a crack: the officers, seized
the youth for a burglary.
GRANNAM. Corn.
GRANNUM’S gold. Hoarded money:
supposed to have
belonged to the grandmother of the possessor.
Granny. An abbreviation of grandmother;
also the name
of an idiot, famous for licking, her eye,
who died Nov. 14,
1719. Go teach your granny to suck
eggs; said to such
as would instruct any one in a matter
he knows better than
themselves.
Grapple the rails. A cant name
used in Ireland for
whiskey.
Grappling irons. Handcuffs.
Grave digger. Like a grave digger;
up to the a-se in
business, and don’t know which way
to turn.
Gravy-eyed. Blear-eyed, one whose eyes have
a running
humour.
To grease. To bribe. To grease
a man in the fist; to
bribe him. To grease a fat sow in
the a-se; to give to a
rich man. Greasy chin; a treat given
to parish officers in
part of commutation for a bastard:
called also, Eating a
child.
Great intimate. As great as shirt and shitten a-se.
Great Joseph. A surtout. Cant.
Greedy guts. A covetous or voracious person.
Greek. St. Giles’s Greek; the slang lingo, cant, or gibberish.
Green. Doctor Green; i.e. grass:
a physician, or rather
medicine, found very successful in curing
most disorders
to which horses are liable. My horse
is not well, I shall
send him to Doctor Green.


