ETYMOLOGY
from gesture + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…vvhich hath learned to spoyle & deuour folk to make vvidovves, destroy their houses, & make their Cities desert. Some be as foyinge, gesturous, and counterfeicting of any thing by ymitacion as Apes. Some Forlyke, are suttle, wylie, deceiptfull, and crafty to entrappe and catche the innocent at aduauntage…”
From: The Touchstone of Complexions
By Levinus Lemnius
Translated by Thomas Newton, 1576
ETYMOLOGY
alteration of gobble
EXAMPLE
“…A dinner nice the oad folks have,”
At race-time, ollis ‘ood, –
That day, they had a toad-in-hole,
A dish that’s deadly gud
But when oad Styles to goffle it,
Bargun, he soon ded cry out: –
“Missus! I thinks as how, taa-day,
“Yow’ve put the meller’s eye out!…”
From: John Noakes & Mary Styles:
Or, “An Essex Calf’s” Visit to Tiptree Races
By Charles Clark, 1839
ETYMOLOGY
from Scots gumple (to be in a bad mood, to sulk, and as a noun, a fit of the sulks) + feist (found in other formations of similar meaning, e.g. bumple feist (the sulks), amplefeist (a sulky mood)) + -ed
EXAMPLE
“…Aweel, aweel,’ said Peter Peebles, totally unabashed by the repulse, ‘e’en as ye like, a wilful man maun hae his way; but,’ he added, stooping down and endeavouring to gather the spilled snuff from the polished floor, ‘I canna afford to lose my sneeshing for a’ that ye are gumple-foisted wi’ me‘….”
From: Redgauntlet: A Tale of the Eighteenth Century
By Sir Walter Scott, 1824
ETYMOLOGY
from Greek γελαστικός (gelastikos), from γελᾶν (to laugh)
EXAMPLE
“…or even exempt it from his unexcepting Censure and Undutiful Reflection against that Right Reverend Father of our Church, not without a Gelastick deference to so great a name, no more than without as high a Conception as possibly conceivable of the unappearing performances of so learned a Prelate…”
From: Athenae Britannicae:
Or, A Critical History of the Oxford and Cambridge Writers and Writings
By Myles Davies, 1716
ETYMOLOGY
from gutter + lane
EXAMPLE
“…All goeth down Gutter-lane (A small Lane in the City otherwise Guthurum lane.) Appliable to great Gluttons and Drunkards…”
From: Anglorum Speculum
By George Sandys, 1684
ETYMOLOGY
perhaps a variation of jimp (slender, slim, delicate, graceful, neat)
EXAMPLE
“…Hys wifis, Toppa and Partelot, hym by,
As byrd al tyme that hantis bigamy.
The pantyt povn, pasand with plomys gym,
Kest vp his taill, a provd plesand quheill rym,
Yschrowdyt in hys fedrame brycht and scheyn,
Schapand the prent of Argus hundreth eyn…”
From: Virgil’s Aeneid translated into Scottish verse
By Gavin Douglas, 1513
ETYMOLOGY
from Old Norse glupna (to be downcast);
a root of identical form appears in Old Frisian glûpa, Middle Low German glûpen (to lie in wait for), Dutch gluipen (to watch slily, to sneak), Old Swedish glupa (to gape, swallow), Swedish glupande, Danish glubende (ravenous, fierce);
whether there is any etymological connection is uncertain
ETYMOLOGY
from French gobe-mouches
(from gober (to swallow) + mouche (fly))
PRONUNCIATION
GOB-moosh
EXAMPLE
“…Such a representation the gobes mouches of Florence might have readily magnified into a change of religion.…”
From: Narrative Of A Residence In Algiers
By Edward Blaquière, translation of Filippo Pananti, 1818
ETYMOLOGY
from Old French gorel, gorreau (a pig, hog);
related to Old French gore (sow): of unknown origin.
EXAMPLE (for n. 1.)
“…Crampe that comyth of replycyon fallyth ofte to fatte men and flesshly and well fedde and gorrelles…”
From: Bartholomew de Glanville’s De Proprietatibus Rerum,
Translated by John Trevisa, 1495
ETYMOLOGY
from gad (used to express strong feeling) + zooks (origin unknown)
EXAMPLE
“…Buz. Ile first take tother cup, and then out with’t altogether—And now it comes—If my Mistress do bring him home a bastard, she’s but even with him.
Nat. He has one I warrant. Has he cadzooks?…”
From: The English Moor or the Mock-Marriage,
in Five Nevv Playes, viz. The English Moor. The Love-sick Court. Covent Garden Eeeded. The New Academy. The Queen and Concubine,
By Richard Brome, 1659
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