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growler
A four-wheeled cab. It is generally supposed that drivers of these vehicles take a less favourable view of life than do their Hansom brethren.
growth in something
Increase or expansion in a particular area or field
grub
Food.
grub
Victuals. To grub; to dine.
grub along
to work or live with difficulty or hardship
grub street
A street near Moorfields, formerly the supposed habitation of many persons who wrote for the booksellers: hence a Grub-street writer means a hackney author, who manufactures booss for the booksellers.
Grub Street
The former name of a London street in the ward of Cnpplegate Without, which, says Johnson, was
grubby
Musty, or old-fashioned.—Devonshire.
gruel
"to give a person his GRUEL," to kill him. An expression in all probability derived from the report of a trial for poisoning, or from the easiest manner of administering a dose of poison. In the old days a similar phrase was "to drug a posset." Compare "to settle his hash," and "cook his goose."
gruesome twosome
Two people who are closely associated and considered unpleasant or annoying
grumble
To grumble in the gizzard; to murmur or repine. He grumbled like a bear with a sore head.
grumbletonian
A discontented person; one who is always railing at the times or ministry.
grundies
Underpants.
grunt level
Basic or fundamental level of something
grunt work
Hard, menial, or tedious work
grunt-horn
A tuba.
grunter
A pig.
grunter
A hog; to grunt; to groan, or complain of sickness.
grunter's gig
A smoaked hog's face.
grunting peck
Pork, bacon, or any kind of hog's flesh.
Gruyere Cheese
A kind of cheese made in the Jura district of Switzerland and France, taking its name from the district of
Gruyere in Canton Fnbourg
The curd is pressed in large, shallow cylindrical moulds, and while still in the mould is well salted for at least a month. The cheese is of a pale yellow colour and is characterized by an abundance of large air-bubbles.
guac
Money.
gub
Mouth.
gudgeon
One easily imposed on. To gudgeon; to swallow the bait, or fall into a trap: from the fish of that name, which is easily taken.
Guerilla War
A petty war carried on by bodies of irregular troops acting in- dependently of each other. From Span. guerilla, diminutive of guerra, war. The word is applied to the armed bands of peasants, and to individuals, who carry on irregular war on their own account, especially at such time as their government is contending with invading armies.
guess what
used to introduce a surprising piece of information
guiche
Perineum.
Guild of St
George. Since 1641 it has occupied its training ground near BunhiU Fields. Iru Tudor and Stuart days the officers for the Trained Bands of London were supplied by the H.A.C., in whose ranks Milton, Wren, and Samuel Pepys served at one time or another. It has the privilege of marching through the City with fixed bayonets.
guilt trip
Manipulating someone into doing something by making them feel guilty
guilty pleasure
Something enjoyed despite feeling ashamed or embarrassed about it
guinea fowl
So called because it was brought to us from the coast of Guinea, where it is very common.
guinea pigs
Habitual directors of public companies; special jurymen; and engineer officers doing civil duty at the War Office, and paid a GUINEA per diem.
guinea to a goose
A sporting phrase, meaning long odds in favour of, or against, anything under notice. In the City this state of things is represented by the phrase, Lombard Street to a China orange. There are also other colloquialisms on this subject, but their power is, as a rule, mainly dependent upon their indecency.
Guineapig Club
A club founded in World War II for severely wounded R.A.F. personnel who had to undergo plastic surgery, or volun- teered for experimental operations.
Gulf Stream
The great, warm ocean current which flows out of the Gulf of Mexico (whence its name) and, passing by the eastern coast of the United States, is, near the banks of New- foundland, deflected across the Atlantic to modify the climate of Western Europe as far north as Spitzbergen and Nova Zembla. It washes the shores of the British Isles.
gull
A simple credulous fellow, easily cheated.
gull
To cheat, to deceive; also one easily cheated. From the easy manner in which the bird of that name is deceived.
gulled
Deceived, cheated, imposed on.
gullgropers
Usurers who lend money to the gamesters.
gulliver
one's head.
Gulliver's Travels
This, the best known of the works of Jonathan Swift (1667- 1745) was published in 1726. It consists of four travels of Captain Lemuel Gulliver. The first is to Lilliput, a country of tiny men and women some six inches high; the second is to Brob- dingnag, a land of giants as big in comparison to Gulliver as he was to the Lilliputians. His third voyage took him to Laputa, the flying island inhabited by scientific quacks.
gully rakers
Cattle thieves in Australia, the cattle being stolen out of almost inaccessible valleys, there termed GULLIES.
gullyfluff
The waste—coagulated dust, crumbs, and hair—which accumulates imperceptibly in the pockets of schoolboys.
gulp up
To vomit.
gulpin
A weak, credulous fellow, who will GULP down anything.
gum
Abusive language. Come, let us have no more of your gum.
gum up
to cause something to become blocked or obstructed
gummy
Thick; fat.
gummy
Clumsy: particularly applied to the ancles of men or women, and the legs of horses.
gummy
Thick, fat—generally applied to a woman’s ankles, or to a man whose flabby person betokens him a drunkard.
gump stump
The anus.
gumph
Nonsense.
gumption
Or RUMGUMPTION, comprehension, capacity. From GAUM, to comprehend; "I canna gauge it, and I canna GAUM it," as a Yorkshire exciseman said of a hedgehog.
gun
He is in the gun; he is drunk: perhaps from an allusion to a vessel called a gun, used for ale in the universities.
gun
A magsman or street thief. Diminutive of gonnuf or gunnof. A GUN’S practice is known as GUNOVING.
gun cotton
A highly explosive compound, prepared by saturating cotton or other cellulose material with nitric and sulphuric acids.
gun jumping
starting something before it is officially allowed
gun money
Base money issued in Ireland by James II, made from old brass cannon, with a small admixture of silver.
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