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giblet(1)

giblets: The heart, liver, gizzard etc. of a goose, duck or chicken

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gig-men¹

A man plying a light two-wheeled one-horse carriage for hire.

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gig²

one who has been made a fool of [OED]

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Gig¹

Gig - A light two-wheeled one-horse carriage. [OED]

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Synonyms - gigs¹
Gill
A measure of liquid; a quarter pint in some parts of England, in others a half pint.
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Gilpin¹

Hero of “The Diverting History of John Gilpin” a poem by William Cowper in which Gilpin’s horse runs away with him.

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ginger¹

To introduce ginger into a horse's anus to make it move in a lively manner, with the tail held high, and thus appear youthful and spirited [OED]

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Synonyms - ginger'd
gingham¹

A type of cotton fabric typically having a checked pattern woven from contrasting white and coloured yarns; a pattern or fabric of this kind; a piece of this fabric. [OED]

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glen¹

Glen: A valley or hollow gen. traversed by a stream or river, usu. but not necessarily narrow and with steep sides; in longer rivers connoting the mountain valley in the upper reaches as opposed to the strath or broader vale below.

[Dictionary of the Scots Language]

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Synonyms - glens¹
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gobbin(1)

An unintelligent or uneducated person; a fool, an idiot [OED]

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gold bobbing

Meaning unknown

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Goliah(1)
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Synonyms - Goliath
goo(1)

It may mean "taste" from the French "goût". Thousands of French aristocrats fled to England during the French Revolution and there were about 40,000 French immigrants in Britain by 1800 [Ref: Murray, Venetia; High Society : A Social History of the Regency Period, 1788-1830]

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good-men

Husband [OED]

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Synonyms - good-man, goodman
Good_lack¹

An exclamation [OED]

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goose¹

A tailor's smoothing-iron. (So called from the resemblance of the handle to the shape of a goose's neck.)

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Gouffer

Gofer: A thin batter-cake on which a honeycomb pattern is stamped by the iron plates between which it is baked. [OED]

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gout¹

A specific constitutional disease occurring in paroxysms, usually hereditary and in male subjects; characterized by painful inflammation of the smaller joints, esp. that of the great toe, and the deposition of sodium urate in the form of chalk-stones; it often spreads to the larger joints and the internal organs. [OED]
Gout is often represented as a disease suffered by the rich and casued by overindulgence in food and alcohol especially port wine [CPB]

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go_to_pot¹

to be ruined or destroyed, to deteriorate, to go to pieces. [OED]

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