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Boots
·noun A servant at a hotel or elsewhere, who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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boots
The youngest officer in a regimental mess, whose duty it is to skink, that is, to stir the fire, snu...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Goose
·noun A silly creature; a simpleton.
II. Goose ·noun Any large bird of other related families, rese...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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goose
A taylor's goose; a smoothing iron used to press down the seams, for which purpose it must be heated...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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goose
n.
English bird-name. The Australianspecies are – – Cape Barren Goose – – Cereopsis novae-hollandia...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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goose
A tailor's smoothing-iron. It is a jocular saying that 'A tailor, be he ever so poor, is always sure...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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Top-boots
·noun ·pl High boots, having generally a band of some kind of light-colored leather around the upper...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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dry boots
A sly humorous fellow.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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sly boots
A cunning fellow, under the mask of simplicity.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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to fox boots
To foot boots, i. e. to repair boots by adding new soles, and surrounding the feet with new leather....
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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jack-boots
Large coverings for the feet and legs, outside all, worn by fishermen.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Brand goose
·- A species of wild goose (Branta bernicla) usually called in America brant. ·see <<Brant>>.
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Ember-goose
·noun The loon or great northern diver. ·see <<Loon>>.
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Goose egg
·add. ·- In games, a zero; a score or record of naught;
— so named in allusion to the egglike outli...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Goose-rumped
·add. ·adj Having the tail set low and buttocks that fall away sharply from the croup;
— said of ce...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Imber-goose
·noun The loon. ·see Ember-goose.
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Sea goose
·- A <<Phalarope>>.
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Solan goose
·- The common gannet.
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Way-goose
·noun ·see Wayz-goose, ·noun, 2.
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Wayz-goose
·noun A stubble goose.
II. Wayz-goose ·noun An annual feast of the persons employed in a printing o...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Goose Alley
South out of Bow Churchyard to Twelve Bell Court. In Cordwainer Ward (Boyle, 1799).
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Goose Lane
See Goose Alley, Bow Churchyard.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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goose riding
A goose, whose neck is greased, being suspended by the legs to a cord tied to two trees or high post...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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greenwich goose
A pensioner of Greenwich Hospital.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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strangle goose
A poulterer.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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taylors goose
An iron with which, when heated, press down the seams of clothes.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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colonial goose
n.
a boned leg of muttonstuffed with sage and onions. In the early days the sheep wasalmost the sol...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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goose-teal
n.
the English name for a verysmall goose of the genus Nettapus. The Australianspecies are – – Gree...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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magpie-goose
n.
a common name for theAustralian Goose, Anseranus melanoleuca, Lath.; calledalso Swan-goose, and ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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gone goose
'It's a gone goose with him,' means that he is past recovery. The phrase is a vulgarism in New Engla...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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goose-grass
goose-tansy, argentina, or auscrina. N.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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cole-goose
A name for the cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo).
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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dunter-goose
A name in the Orkneys for the Somateria mollissima, or eider-duck.
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ember-goose
(OR IMBER?)
A name for the great northern diver or loon (Colymbus glacialis).
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gone-goose
A ship deserted or given up in despair (in extremis).
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goose-neck
A curved iron, fitted outside the after-chains to receive a spare spar, properly the swinging boom, ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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horie-goose
A northern name for the Anser bernicla, or brent-goose.
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rood-goose
A name for the brent-goose.
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sly-goose
A northern term for the sheldrake, Tadorna vulpanser.
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solan-goose
The gannet, Sula bassana, a well-known sea fowl, frequenting the coasts of many countries in the nor...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Wild Goose Court
See Wingoose Alley.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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wild-goose chase
A tedious uncertain pursuit, like the following a flock of wild geese, who are remarkably shy.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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cape-barren goose
n.
See goose.
1852. Mrs. Meredith, `My Home in Tasmania,' vol. i. p. 114,[Footnote]:
«The `Cape B...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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goose-man chick
a gosling. York, and Glouc. The syllable MAN is redundant, as in FURZE-MAN PIG, a hedge-hog.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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goose without gravy
A severe starting, so called because no blood followed its infliction.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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mother cary's goose
The name given by Captain Cook's people to an oceanic brown bird, Procellaria gigantea, which Pernet...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Goose Alley, Fleet Market
See Braziers' Buildings.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Fox and Goose Inn, Yard
On the south side of London Wall, in Cripplegate Ward Within (Hatton, 1708-Boyle, 1799), between Col...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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goose-wings of a sail
The situation of a course when the buntlines and lee-clue are hauled up, and the weather-clue down. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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such a reason pist my goose
or MY GOOSE PIST
Said when any one offers an absurd reason.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose