get together
Meet or gather, often socially
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get under someone's skin
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
get underneath someone's skin
to annoy or irritate someone very much
get up
A person’s appearance or general arrangements. Probably derived from the decorations of a play.
get up on the wrong side of the bed
to wake up in a bad mood
get up the yard
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
get up with the chickens
Wake up very early in the morning
get used
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
get used to doing something
Common English phrase; full definition pending editorial review.
get used to something
Common English phrase; full definition pending editorial review.
get well
to recover from an illness
get wet
become involved or affected by something
get what one asked for
receive the consequences of one's actions
get what's coming to one
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
get wind
to hear or learn something secretly
get wind in one's jaws
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
get wind of
To hear or learn about something secretly or indirectly
get with the program
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
get with the times
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
get your goat
To irritate someone.
get your head shaved
You are a dotard. Go and get your head shaved like other lunatics. See BATH.
gherkin
The penis.
ghetto bird
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
ghetto lottery
a situation where someone, often unfairly, wins or gains something
ghod
God.
ghood
Good.
ghost
"the GHOST doesn’t walk," a theatrical term which implies that there is no money about, and that there will be no "treasury."
ghost -writer
The anonymous author who writes speeches, articles, or even books — especially autobiographies — for which another and better-known person gets the credit.
ghost at the feast
An unwelcome or uninvited person who spoils the enjoyment of others
ghost from one's past
A person or memory that haunts or reminds one of a past experience
ghost home
Abandon or leave a place suddenly
ghosts and goblins
Supernatural or frightening beings
gib cat
A northern name for a he cat, there commonly called Gilbert. As melancholy as a gib cat; as melancholy as a he cat who has been caterwauling, whence they always return scratched, hungry, and out of spirits. Aristotle says, Omne animal post coitum est triste; to which an anonymous author has given the following exception, preter gallum gallinaceum, et sucerdotem gratis fornicantem.
Gib Cat
A tom-cat. The male cat used to be called Gilbert. Tibert or Tybalt (q.v.) is the French form of Gilbert, and hence Chaucer, or whoever it was that translated that part of the Romance of the Rose, renders "Thibert le Cas" by "Gibbe, our Cat" (line 6204). Generally used of a castrated cat.
gib-face
A heavy, ugly face; GIB is properly the lower lip of a horse; "to hang one’s GIB," to pout the lower lip, to be angry or sullen.
gibbe
A horse that shrinks from the collar and will not draw.
gibberish
The cant language of thieves and gypsies, called Pedlars' French, and St. Giles's Greek: see ST. GILES'S GREEK. Also the mystic language of Geber, used by chymists. Gibberish likewise means a sort of disguised language, formed by inserting any consonant between each syllable of an English word; in which case it is called the gibberish of the letter inserted: if F, it is the F gibberish; if G, the G gibberish; as in the sentence How do you do? Howg dog youg dog.
giblets
To join giblets; said of a man and woman who cohabit as husband and wife, without being married; also to copulate.
Gibson Girl
A type of feminine beauty characteristic of its period depicted by Charles Dana Gibson (1867-1944) in several popular series of black-and-white drawings, dating from 1896. His delineations of the American girl enjoyed an enormous vogue, culminating in the series entitled The Education of Mr. Pipp which appeared in Colliers Weekly (1899) and formed the basis of a play of that name.
gibus
An opera hat. From the inventor of the crush hat.
gick
Excrement.
giddy as a windmill
Very dizzy.
giffle-gaffle
Nonsense.
giffle-gaffle
Or GIBBLE-GABBLE, nonsense. See CHAFF. Icelandic, GAFLA.
gift from above
An unexpected and welcome event or situation
gift from heaven
Something wonderfully good or welcome that happens unexpectedly
gift from the goddesses
An unexpected and welcome benefit or advantage
gift from the heavens
Something wonderfully good or welcome that happens unexpectedly
gift horse
Something given for free should be accepted without criticism
gift of the gab
The ability to speak fluently and persuasively
gift that keeps on giving
Something that continues to provide benefit or entertainment over time
gifts
Small white specks under the finger nails, said to portend gifts or presents. A stingy man is said to be as full of gifts as a brazen horse of his farts.
gig
A farthing. Formerly GRIG.
gig lamps
Spectacles; also a person who wears spectacles is often called GIG-LAMPS. Connexion obvious. This term has been in use probably as long as GIG-LAMPS themselves—if GIG-LAMPS were invented after spectacles.
gig-lamp
Spectacles.
gigg
A nose. Snitchel his gigg; fillip his nose. Grunter's gigg; a hog's snout. Gigg is also a high one-horse chaise, and a woman's privities. To gigg a Smithfield hank; to hamstring an over-drove ox, vulgarly called a mad bullock.
gigger
A latch, or door. Dub the gigger; open the door. Gigger dubber; the turnkey of a jaol.
giggle berries
Testicles.
Gilbert and Sullivan
relating to comedic opera
gilflurt
A proud minks, a vain capricious woman,
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