get your goat
To irritate someone.
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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,
Gilgamesh and Aga
A fixed-order word pair (irreversible binomial); full definition pending editorial review.
gill
The abbreviation of Gillian, figuratively used for woman. Every jack has his gill; i.e. every jack has his gillian, or female mate.
gill
Or JILL, a homely woman; "Jack and Gill," &c.
Gillies' Hill
In the battle of Bannockburn (1314) King Robert Bruce ordered all the gillies, drivers of carts, and camp followers to go behind a height. These, when the battle seemed to favour the Scots, desirous of sharing in the plunder, rushed from their concealment with such arms as they could lay hands on; and the English, thinking them to be a new army, fled in panic. The height was ever after called The Gillies* Hill.
gills
The cheeks. To look rosy about the gills; to have a fresh complexion. To look merry about the gills: to appear cheerful.
gills
The lower part of the face.—Bacon. "To grease one’s GILLS," "to have a good feed," or make a hearty meal. A man suffering from the effects of a previous night’s debauch, is said to "look queer about the gills."
gilly gaupus
A Scotch term for a tall awkward fellow.
gilt
Money.
gilt
Money. German, GELD; Dutch, GELT.
Gilt-edge Investments
A phrase introduced in the last quarter of the 19th century to denote securities of the most reliable character, such as Consols and other Government and Colon- ial stock, first mortgages, debentures, and shares in first-rate companies, etc.
gimblet-eyed
Squinting, either in man or woman.
gimcrack
A bijou, a slim piece of mechanism. Old slang for "a spruce wench."—New Bailey. Any things which are gaudy and easily breakable, are known now as GIMCRACKS.
gimme a five
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
gin-spinner
A distiller, or rectifier of gin.
gina
The vagina.
gingambobs
Toys, bawbles; also a man's privities. See THINGAMBOBS.
ginger
A showy, fast horse—as if he had been figged with GINGER under his tail; a red-haired man. Term commonly used in depreciation of a person’s appearance.
ginger hackled
Having flaxen, light yellow hair. Term originally used to describe a certain colour or colours in game-cocks.—See HACKLE.
ginger knob
a derogatory term for a redheaded person
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