Category: Word of the Day – G

ETYMOLOGY
from Scottish gundie (greedy, voracious) + guts

EXAMPLE
“…In short, these quarrels grew up to rooted aversions; they gave one another nick-names: she called him gundy-guts, and he called her lousy Peg, though the girl was a tight clever wench as any was, and through her pale looks you might discern spirit and vivacity, which made her not, indeed, a perfect beauty, but something that was agreeable…”

From: John Bull
By John Arbuthnot, 1712

ETYMOLOGY
from gripple (niggardly, usurious) + -minded

EXAMPLE
“…L. BEAU. That a man of your estate should be so gripple-minded and repining at his wife’s bounty!…”

From: Any Thing for a Quiet Life
– Thomas Middleton and Thomas Webster, a1632

ETYMOLOGY
from French gastronome, back-formation from gastronomie (gastronomy, art of delicate eating)

EXAMPLE
“…Whereas, such and so interesting were the subjects of discussion betwixt Chiffinch and the French cook, that, without heeding the rules of etiquette, they rode on together, amicably abreast, carrying on a conversation on the mysteries of the table, which the ancient Comus, or a modern gastronome, might have listened to with pleasure. It was therefore necessary to venture on them both at once…”

From: Peveril of the Peak
– Sir Walter Scott, 1823

ETYMOLOGY
– from Greek γαστρ(ο)-, γαστήρ (gaster – stomach) + θίλ-ος (filos – friend)

EXAMPLE
“…From the foregoing observations we must conclude that the glutton practises without any regard to theory; and we call him Gastrophile. The gormand unites theory with practice, and may be denominated Gastronomer…”

From: Tabella Cibaria.
The Bill of Fare:
A Latin Poem,
Implicitly translated and fully explained in copious and interesting notes, relating to the Pleasures of Gastronomy, and the Mysterious Art of Cookery,
Ange Denis M’Quin, 1820

ETYMOLOGY
– from goose (a foolish person) + cap (the head a1659)

EXAMPLE
“…And so will you Sonnes both, like a couple of goosecaps, (if you looke not to it) as your father did, with your own goose quil.…”

From: Martins Months Minde; that is, a certaine report, and true description of the death, and funeralls, of olde Martin Marreprelate, the great makebate of England 
– Thomas Nash, 1589