Gloak (or Gloach), subs. (old).—A man. For synonyms, see Chum and Cove.
1821. D. Haggart, Life, Glossary, pp. 48 and 172. Gloach, a man; cove.
Globe, subs. (old).—1. A pewter
pot; pewter.
1714. Memoirs of John Hall, s.v.
1811. Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.
2. in. pl. (common).—The paps. For synonyms, see Dairy.
Globe-rangers, subs. (nautical).—The
Royal Marines.
Globe-trotter, subs. (colloquial).—A
traveller; primarily one
who races from place to place,
with the object of covering ground
or making a record. Fr.: un
pacquelineur.
1886. Graphic, 7 Aug., 147/1. Your mere idle gaping globetrotter will spin endless pages of unobservant twaddle, and will record his tedious wanderings with most painful minuteness.
1888. Academy, 17 Mar. The inevitable steamboat, the world, and the omnivorous globe-trotter.
1889. Echo, 9 Feb. The British globe-trotter knows Japan as he knows England, and English books about Japan are turned out by the ton.
1890. Pall Mall Gaz., 27 Jan., p. 5, c. 2. This popular definition of a quick-mover has now become effete. Miss Bly is a globe-galloper or she is nothing.
Globe-trotting, subs. (colloquial).—Travelling
after the manner of
GLOBE-TROTTERS (q.v.).
1888. Academy, 22 Sept. In fact, globe-trotting, as the Americans somewhat irreverently term it, is now frequently undertaken as a mere holiday trip.
Glope, verb. (Winchester College).—To
spit. (Obsolete).
Glorious, adj. (common).—Excited
with drink; 'in one's
altitudes'; boozed. For synonyms,
see drinks and screwed.
1791. Burns, Tam o' Shanter. Kings may be blessed, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills of life victorious.
1853. Thackeray, Barry Lyndon, ch. xviii., p. 252. I knew nothing of the vow, or indeed of the tipsy frolic which was the occasion of it; I was taken up glorious, as the phrase is, by my servants, and put to bed.
1891. Licensed Vict. Gaz., 9 Feb. But as they all began to get glorious, personalities became more frequent and very much stronger.
Glorious Sinner, subs. phr.
(rhyming).—A dinner.
Glory, subs. (common).—The
after life; kingdom come
(q.v.). Usually, the coming
glory.
1841. Punch, 17 July, p. 2. Clara pines in secret—Hops the twig, and goes to glory in white muslin.
In one's glory, adv. phr. (colloquial).—In the full flush of vanity, pride, taste, notion, or idiosyncracy.
Gloves, to go for the gloves,
verb. phr. (racing).—To bet recklessly;
to bet against a horse without
having the wherewithal to pay
if one loses—the last resource of
the plunging turfite. The term
is derived from the well-known
habit of ladies to bet in pairs of
gloves, expecting to be paid if
they win, but not to be called
upon to pay if they lose.
1877. Hawley Smart, Play or Pay, ch. xi. One of the boldest plungers of the day, who had begun badly, was going for the gloves upon this match.
