1620. Middleton, Chaste Maid, ii., 2. What their golls can clutch.
1634. S. Rowley, Noble Souldier, Act ii., Sc. 2. Bal. Saist thou me so? give me thy goll, thou art a noble girle.
1659. Massinger, City Madam, iv., i. All the gamesters are ambitious to shake the golden golls of worshipful master Luke.
1661. T. Middleton, Mayor of Quinborough, v., i. Down with his golls, I charge you.
1672. Dryden, The Assignation, Act iii., Sc. 1. A simperer at lower end of a table, With mighty golls, rough-grained, and red with starching.
1787. Grose, Prov. Glossary. Goll, a hand or fist; give me thy goll.
1803. C. K. Sharpe in Correspondence (1888), i., 179. Miss Reid with her silk coat and greasie golls.
Gollop, verb. (common).—To
swallow greedily; to gulp. For
synonyms, see Wolf.
Gollumpus, subs. (old).—A
clumsy lout.—Grose.
Golly!—A contraction of By
Golly! (q.v.).
1890. R. L. Stevenson, The Wrong Box, p. 275. Golly! what a paper!
Goloptious (or Golopshus), adj.
(common).—Splendid; fine; delicious;
luscious.
1888. Sporting Life, 7 Dec. It would better scoop the situation if it were described as goloptious.
Goloshes, subs. (colloquial).—India
rubber overshoes. But see
Grose.
1796. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Goloshes, i.e. Goliah's shoes. Large leathern clogs, worn by invalids over their ordinary shoes.
Gombeen-man, subs. (Irish).—A
usurer; a money-lender; a sharking
middleman. For synonyms,
see Sixty-per-cent.
Gomer, subs. (Winchester College).—1.
A large pewter dish used in
college.
2. (Winchester College).—A new hat. See Golgotha.
Gommy, subs. (old).—1. A dandy.
Fr., gommeux. [Anglo-Saxon,
guma = a man; a person: gomme
= gommer = gammer. Cf., Gomus.
Beaumont has gom = a
man.]
2. (colloquial).—See quot.
1883. Weekly Dispatch, 11 Mar., p. 7, c. 4. There has recently been considerable debate as to the meaning of the term gommie. It is very simple. A gommie is one who calls Mr. Gladstone a G. O. M. [Grand Old Man], and thinks he has made a good joke.
3. (colloquial).—A fool. For synonyms, see Buffle and Cabbage-head.
Gomus, subs. (Irish).—A fool. For
synonyms, see Buffle and Cabbage-head.
Gondola, subs. (American).—1. A
railway platform car, sideless or
low-sided. Also a flat-bottomed
boat.
Gondola of London, subs. phr.
(common).—A hansom cab; a
shoful (q.v.). [The description
is Lord Beaconsfield's.]
Gone, adj. (colloquial).—1. Ruined;
totally undone. Also, adv.,
an expression of completeness,
e.g., Gone beaver, corbie,
coon, gander, or goose = a man
or an event past praying for: Cf.,
Go up and Go down.
1604. Shakspeare, Winter's Tale, iv., 3. He must know 'tis none of your daughter nor my sister; we are gone else.
