Garden-Latin, subs. (colloquial).—Barbarous or sham Latin. Also
Apothecaries’, Bog, Dog, and Kitchen-Latin.
Garden-Rake, subs. phr. (common).—A tooth-comb. Also scratching-rake or
rake.
Gardy-Loo, subs. (old Scots).—A warning cry; ‘take care!’ [Fr. gardez’
(vous de) l’eau! Used before emptying slops out of window into the
street. Hence the act of emptying slops itself, as in quotation dated
1818.]
1771. Smollet, Humphry Clinker, (British Novelists), xxxi., p. 57.
At ten o’clock the whole cargo is flung out of a back windore that
looks into some street or lane, and the maid calls gardy-loo to the
passengers, which signifies ‘Lord have mercy on you!’
1818. Scott, Heart of Midlothian, ch. xxvii. She had made the
gardy-loo out of the wrong window.
Gargle, subs. (formerly medical students’, now common).—A drink; also
generic. Cf., Lotion, and for synonyms, see Go.
1889. Sporting Times, 3 Aug., p. 3, c. 1. We’re just going to have
a gargle—will you join us?
Verb. (common).—To drink; to ‘liquor up.’ For synonyms, see Drinks and
Lush.
1889. Sporting Times, 3 Aug., p. 5. c. 5. We gargled....
1891. Morning Advertiser, 2 Mar. It’s my birthday; let’s gargle.
Gargle-Factory, subs. (common).—A public house. For synonyms, see Lush
Crib.
Garn, intj. (vulgar).—A corruption of Go on! Get away with you!
1888. Runciman, The Chequers, p. 80. Garn, you farthin’ face! She
your neck.
1892. Ally Sloper, 19 Mar., p. 90, c. 3. Gar’n, you men ain’t got
no sense.
1892. National Observer, 6 Feb. p. 307, c. 2. And so simple is the
dictum, so redolent of the unlettered Arry that we long to add
garn, oo’re you gettin’ at?
Garnish, subs. (old).—1. A fee or footing (q.v.); specifically one
exacted by gaolers and old prisoners from a newcomer. The practice was
forbidden by 4 Geo. IV., c. 43, sec. 12. Also Garnish-Money.
1592. Greene, Quip, in works, xi., 256. Let a poore man be arrested
into one of the counters [prisons] ... he shall be almost at an
angel’s charge, what with garnish [etc.].
1606. T. Dekker, Seven Deadly Sinnes, p. 28 (Arber’s ed.). So that
the Counters are cheated of Prisoners, to the great dammage of
those that shoulde have their morning’s draught out of the garnish.
1632. Jonson, Magnetic Lady, v. 6. You are content with the ten
thousand pounds Defalking the four hundred garnish-money?
1704. Steele, Lying Lover, Act iv., Sc. iv. But there is always
some little trifle given to prisoners, they call garnish.
1752. Fielding, Amelia, Bk. I., ch. iii. Mr. Booth ... was no
sooner arrived in the prison, than a number of persons gathered
round him, all demanding garnish.
1759. Goldsmith, The Bee, No. 5, p. 385 (Globe ed.). There are
numberless faulty expenses among the workmen—clubs, garnishes,
freedoms, and such like impositions.
1815. Scott, Guy Mannering, ch. xliv. [Jailor loq.] Thirty
shillings a week for lodgings, and a guinea for garnish.