English Synonyms.—Battle of the Nile (rhyming, i.e., a tile [q.v.]);
bell-topper; billy-cock; beaver; box-hat; cady; canister cap; castor;
chummy; cathedral; chimney; chimney-pot; cock; colleger;
cock-and-pinch; cowshooter; David; deerstalker; digger’s delight;
fantail; felt; Gibus; gomer (Winchester); goss; moab; molocher;
mortar-board; muffin-cap; mushroom; nab; nap; napper; pantile;
pimple-cover; pill-box; plug-hat; pot; shako; shovel; sleepless hat;
sou’wester; stove-pipe; strawer; thatch; tile; topper; truck;
upper-crust; wash-pot; wee-jee; wide-awake.
French Synonyms.—Un accordéon (popular: an opera hat); une ardoise (= a
tile); une bâche (thieves’: also an awning); une biscope or viscope
(vulgar); un blockaus (vulgar: a shako); un bloumard or une bloume
(popular); une boîte à cornes (a horn case; i.e., a cover for a
cuckold); un Bolivar (from the hero of 1820); un boisseau (also = a
bushel); un bosselard (schoolboys’: from bosselé = bruised or dented);
un cabas (popular: = old hat; also basket or bag); un cadratin
(printers’ = a stove-pipe); un caloquet (thieves’); cambriau,
cambrieux, or cambriot (popular); un capet (from old French, capel);
une capsule (popular = a percussion cap); un carbeluche galicé (a silk
hat); une casque (= helmet); un chapska (= a shako); une cheminée
(popular: = chimney-pot); une corniche (popular: = a cornice); un
couvercle (popular: = pot-lid); une couvrante; un couvre-amour
(military); un cylindre (= a stove-pipe); un Desfoux (from the maker’s
name); un epicéphale (students’: from the Greek); un gadin (an old
hat); un galure or galurin (popular); un Garibaldi; un Gibus (from the
inventor’s name); un lampion (thieves’: = grease-pot); un loubion
(thieves’); un marquin (thieves’); un monument (popular); un nid
d’hirondelle; un niolle (thieves’: an old hat); un tromblon (obsolete =
blunderbuss); un tubard, tube, or tube à haute pression (= a cylinder);
une tuile (= a tile); une tuyau de poêle (= a stove-pipe).
German Synonyms.—Bre (Viennese); Kowe (from the Hebrew, kowa).
Italian Synonyms.—Bufala, baccha or biffacha; cresta or cristiana (= a
cruet); fungo (= mushroom).
Spanish Synonyms.—Tejado or techo (= tiled roof).
Goliath, subs. (colloquial).—1. A big man.
2. A man of mark among the Philistines (q.v.). [Mr. Swinburne described
the late Matthew Arnold as ‘David, the son of Goliath.’]
Goll, subs. (old).—The hand; usually in. pl. See Bunch of Fives and
Daddle.
1601. B. Jonson, Poetaster, v., Bring the whoreson detracting
slaves to the bar, do; make them hold vp their spread golls.
1602. Dekker, Satiro-Mastrix, in wks. (1873), i., 203. Holde up thy
hand: I ha seene the day thou didst not scorne to holde vp thy
golles.
1611. Middleton, Roaring Girl, Act i. This is the goll shall do’t.
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.