10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GOOSEGOB»
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'Ug! It's goosegob pie,' her classmate Jane complained. 'Disgusting!' When the
pudding plopped into her dish, it smelled delicious. Thick custard added on top
completed the new taste experience. Only when she returned to the dinner table
to ...
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary ...
Her skin began to rise into whatis vulgarlytermed gooseskin Goosegog (or
Goosegob), subs. (common).—A gooseberry. Goosegrease, subs. phr.(venery).
—A woman's spendings (</. v. ).See Goose, subs.,sense 6. Goosemonth, subs. (
old).
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An Atlas of English Dialects: Region and Dialect
... me it 26 gob 67 God 52 gog-eyed 51 goggle-eyed 51 gooky 47 gooseberry 67
goosebob 67 goosegob 67 goosegog 67 gorm, -less 47 gorse 68, 74 gospel 5
gowk 76 Gowkin' Day 76 gramfer 38 gramfy 38 grammer 38 grammy 38 gramp, -s
, ...
Clive Upton, J.D.A Widdowson, 2013
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A.S. Byatt and the Heliotropic Imagination
(Byatt has fun with this list, inventing "Crimsonwisp," "Bloodrift," and "Goosegob" [
138].) Phineas visits a doddery professor and Maelstrom fanatic, Thorold
Jespersen, whose person and surroundings reflect the murkiness of scholarship.
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The Dialect of Northumberland: A Lexical Investigation
In the south-east and along the coast gooser and goosegob were found. The
favourite answer of the informants in the west was gog. Hardly any of my
informants answer with grozer. Only 8% are familiar with it. Just four out of eleven
localities, ...
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The Song of the Winns: The Secret of the Ginger Mice: The ...
“But whatkind ofcargo?” muttered Old Goosegob, who was at the wheel. “Maybe
it'llbe gold,” said Alistair, trying to sound enthusiastic and piratelike. Old
Goosegob turned a glum eyeon the cabin boy. “Captain Grizzard's not interested
in gold, ...
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Concise English Dictionary
... horror, etc.; goosefoot any plant of a genus (Chenopodium) of the beet family,
from the shape of the leaf: — pi. goose foots: gooscgog. goosegob see under
gooseberry; goose'-grass cleavers: silver- weed; goose herd one who herds
geese; ...
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The Chambers Dictionary
... also applied to any member of the family Chenopodiaceae: — pi goose foots;
goose -girt a girl who herds geese; goose- gog. goosegob see under gooseberry;
goose-grass cleavers, a Eurasian plant (Galium aparine) with a bristly stem and ...
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A glossary of the Lancashire dialect, by J.H. Nodal and G. ...
... ox-eye daisy. Chrysanthemum leu- canthemum. GOOER, ) sb. a triangular
piece of cloth stitched into a shirt or other GORE, I garment when greater width is
required at one end than at the other. GOOR (W. Lane), sb. a seagull.
GOOSEGOB ...
John Howard Nodal, George Milner, 1875
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The Chambers Crossword Dictionary, 3rd edition
... 06 groser, groset 07 grosert 08 goosegob, goosegog, grossart 09 honeyblob
14 worcesterberry goosefoot 04 beet 05 blite, orach 06 fat hen, kochia, orache,
quinoa, saxaul 07 pigweed, saksaul 08 saltbush, saltwort, seablite 10
greasewood, ...
