Ga, C; Gang, S and C, go.
“I’ll _gang_ nae mair to yon toon.”
_Burns._ Song.
Gangrel, S, vagrant.
“A merry core
O’ randy _gangrel_ bodies.”
_Burns._ The Jolly Beggars.
Gar, S, make, compel.
“The first Scots kirk that they cam’ to
They _garr’t_ the bells be rung;
The next Scots kirk that they cam’ to
They _garr’t_ the mass be sung.”
Ballad—The Gay Goss-hawk.
Gay, C; Gey, S, (adverb form, Gaily) tolerable, considerable.
“Here’s a _gay_ canny mwornin’.”—A common salutation.
“No verra, but _gey_.”—By-saying.
“Hoo irr ye preuvin?” “_Gaily, gaily_, gangin’ aboot!”
A common salutation and reply.
Geàl, C, split, rend, ache severely as from cold.
“I’ve an oald teuth, when t’ coald gits tull’t, it maks o’ _geàl_
ageàn.”—Said to a Doctor.
Gear, S and C, wealth, substance.
“A gleib o’ lan’—a claut o’ _gear_
Was left me by my auntie, Tam.”
_Burns._ Ane an’ twenty, Tam.
“Bruff-side lairds bang’t aw the rest
For braggin’ o’ their _gear_.”
_Anderson._ Bleckell Murry-Neet.
Ged, S, the pike.
“Now safe the stately saumon sail,
An’ trouts bedropp’d wi’ crimson hail,
An’ eels weel kenn’d for souple tail,
An’ _geds_ for greed.”
_Burns._ Tam Samson.
Gezlin, C and S, goslin, young goose.
“Peat’ lass, wid her yallow muffs,
Steud kaakin like a _gezlin_.”
_Mark Lonsdale._ The Upshot.
“If I canna keep geese I’ll keep _gezlins_.”—Proverb.
Ghem, ga way tull’t, C, game, go to it; a hunting phrase; used
proverbially to signify any attractive fun or quarreling.
“There was a fine see howe—an’ _ghem ga way tull’t_.”
Gin, S, if.
“_Gin_ a body meet a body.”
Song—Coming through the Rye.
Gledge, S, look slyly.
“Mr. Forret, alias _Gledgin_ Gibbie, had borne the brunt of incensed
kirk-sessions before that time.”
_Hogg._ Tibbie Hyslop.
Glent, S and C, gleam.
“Where flowers an’ gowans wont to _glent_
I’ bonnie blinks beside the bent.”
_Ferguson._ Auld Reekie.
Gliff, C and S, glimpse.
“Here, here it was (a wae leet on the pleace)
’At furst I gat a _gliff_ o’ Betty’s feace.”
_Relph._ Harvest.
Glime, C, look sideways.
“’Twad mak a deid man laugh to see
Them _glime_ at yen anudder.”
_Anderson._ The Village Gang.
Gloamin’, S, twilight.
“The _gloamin_’ grey out owre the welkin keeks.”
_Ferguson._ The Farmer’s Ingle.
Gloom, S, frown.
“Still away his heid was shyin’,
_Gloomin’_ like a boxing bull.”
_John Johnston._ Dear Meal Johnnie.
Glower, S and C, stare.
“He _glower’t_ at the mune till he fell i’ the midden.”—Proverb.
“What’s t’e _glowerin_’ at? Does t’e see any cat’ horns?”
Sauce.
Glump, C, sulk.
“Neist time we met he _glumpt_ and glower’t
An’ leukt anudder way.”
_Anderson._ The lass abeun thirty.
God Speed, C, a small wooden partition or screen placed within the
house door, when it opens directly upon the sitting room. It has
probably been called so from departing guests being wished “God Speed”
beside it. I first heard the word at Harrington, from a humourist who
asked a group of neighbours if they’d seen Tommy Wilson, who lived next
door to him, adding, “If ye sud see him, tell him ’at his barns an’
mine hev been feightin’ till they’ve knock’d t’ _God-speed_ doon.” The
fun of this lay in the well known fact that both were childless.
Gorb, C, an unfledged bird.
“Geàp, _gorbie_, an’ thou’ll git a wūrm.”—Proverb.
Gowk, S and C, cuckoo, fool.
“Ye breed o’ the _gowk_, ye’ve nae rhyme but ane.”—Proverb.
“’Bout kings and councils _gowks_ may fratch.”
_Anderson._ Gud strang yell.
Gowl, C, to weep vociferously, to howl.
“It greànt, an’ it _gowl’t_, an’ it freetent fwoke sair.”
_Dickinson._ Scallow-Beck Boggle.
Gradely, C, a Lancashire and Cheshire word, often used in Cumberland,
signifying proper or correct. I have overheard myself, in contravention
of the proverb, spoken of as “a varra _gradely_ man” in the lake
district.
Grank, C, to covet querulously.
“Hout man! what signifies repinin’,
Or _grankin’_, snifterin’, twistin’, twinin’.”
_Stagg._ New Year’s Epistle.
Greet, S and C, weep.
“It’s nae mair to see a woman _greet_ than to see a goose gang
barefit.”—Proverb.
“When we’d hed our belly full o’ _greetin_’ we gat up, an’ feel’t
better for’t.”
_Betty Yewdale._ T’ terrible Knitters i’ Dent.
Greg, C, tantalize.
“It does _greg_ yan to hear a hunt yan cannot see.”
Said by a veteran hunter whose sight was failing.
Gruesome, S, making the flesh creep with disgust or horror.
“An’ though she wore a human face,
It was a _gruesome_ sight to see.”
_Hogg._ The Spirit of the Glen.
Gud his-sel’, C, felicitate, or gratify himself.
“Gi’e me anudder kiss.” “Nay, thou mun _gud thysel’_ wid what thou’s
gitten!—thou’s git nea mair to-neet.”
An over-heard conversation.
Guff, S and C, a silly fellow.
“When sec-like guffs leame decent fwoke,
It’s time some laws sud alter.”
_Anderson._ The Village Gang.
Gumption, C, tact, cleverness.
“Hed I thy _gumption_ or thy gift o’ gob.”
_Graham._ Geordie and Will.
Gyversome, C, voracious, ravenous.
“T’ mair ye give till greedy fwoke t’ mair _gyversome_ they
growe.”—Proverb.