Lexicographical Neighbors of Gagmen
Literary usage of Gagmen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Best Plays by Burns Mantle, Louis Kronenberger (1899)
"The John Cecil Holm-George Abbott script had been pepped up by a delegation of Mr.
Cantor's gagmen, which did not help much. Eddie in person was wildly ..."
2. Munimenta Gildhallæ Londoniensis: Liber albus, Liber custumarum, et Liber Horn by Henry Thomas Riley, John Carpenter, London Guildhall, Great Britain Public Record Office, British Library (1860)
"... the exact shades of signification of ' sac ' and ' soc' cannot perhaps with
any satisfactory degree of accuracy be ascertained. gagmen. Fat or lard. ..."
3. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1900)
"+ Du. gal, \cc\.gal¡, Swed. gal.'j, Gaffer ; see Grand. Gag. (C. ?) ME gagmen,
to suffocate. ..."
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