GUTFOUNDERED. Exceeding hungry.
Gut Scraper, or tormentor of catgut. A fiddler.
Gutter lane. The throat, the swallow,
the red lane.
See red lane.
Gutting A quart pot. Taking out
the lining of it: i. e.
drinking it off. Gutting an oyster;
eating it. Gutting a
house; clearing it of its furniture.
See poulterer.
Guy. A dark lanthorn: an allusion to
Guy Faux, the principal
actor in the gunpowder plot. Stow
the guy: conceal the
lanthorn.
Guzzle. Liquor. To guzzle; to drink greedily.
Guzzle guts. One greedy of liquor.
Gybe, or JYBE. Any writing or pass with a seal.
GYBING. Jeering or ridiculing.
Gyles, or Giles. Hopping Giles; a nick
name for a lame
person: St. Giles was the tutelar
saint of cripples.
Gyp. A college runner or errand-boy at Cambridge,
called
at Oxford a scout. See scout.
Gypsies. A set of vagrants, who, to the
great disgrace of
our police, are suffered to wander about
the country.
They pretend that they derive their origin
from the
ancient Egyptians, who were famous for
their knowledge
in astronomy and other sciences; and,
under the pretence
of fortune-telling, find means to rob
or defraud the ignorant
and superstitious. To colour their
impostures, they
artificially discolour their faces, and
speak a kind of
gibberish peculiar to themselves.
They rove up and down the
country in large companies, to the great
terror of the
farmers, from whose geese, turkeys, and
fowls, they take very
considerable contributions.
When a fresh recruit is admitted into
the fraternity, he is to
take the following oath, administered
by the principal
maunder, after going through the
annexed forms:
First, a new name is given him by which
he is ever after to
be called; then standing up in the
middle of the assembly,
and directing his face to the dimber
damber, or principal
man of the gang, he repeats the
following oath, which is
dictated to him by some experienced
member of the fraternity:
I, Crank Cuffin, do swear to be a true
brother, and that I will
in all things obey the commands
of the great tawney
prince, and keep his counsel and
not divulge the secrets of
my brethren.
I will never leave nor forsake the company,
but observe and
keep all the times of appointment,
either by day or by
night, in every place whatever.
I will not teach any one to cant, nor
will I disclose any of
our mysteries to them.


