Lexicographical Neighbors of Gaucy
Literary usage of Gaucy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"WE Nicholson, Gloss. of Coal Trade Terms. gaucy, fat, comely, jolly. "A big gaucy
man." GAUDY-DAY. ..."
2. Ancient Scottish Ballads: Recovered from Tradition and Never Before by George Ritchie Kinloch (1827)
"... lads think they are fine, But the hieland lads are brisk and gaucy;* And they
are awa near Glasgow toun, To steal awa a bonnie lassie. ..."
3. Northumberland Words by Richard Oliver Heslop, Oliver Heslop (1894)
"... the purpose of bringing out the coals worked on the longwall system.
A rolley-way.—WE Nicholson, Gloss. of Coal Trade Terms. gaucy, fat, comely, jolly. ..."
4. Rambles round Glasgow: Descriptive, Historical and Traditional by Hugh MacDonald (1856)
"... Hens on the midden, ducks in the bur n were seen," while a gaucy ... gaucy tail,
frae upward curl, Kings ower his ..."
5. Complete Glossary to the Poetry and Prose of Robert Burns: With Upwards of by John Cuthbertson (1886)
"Ecclesiastes, ii. 8. His fall gat earth with groans.—Chapman. gaucy or ...
gaucy, fat and comely. ..."
6. Pocket Dictionary of the Scottish Idiom in which the Signification of the by Robert Motherby (1826)
"Gate- end, s. neighbourhood, gaucy ... sec gaucy. "adj. and adv. pretty ., i
considerable, toller- ~ < rable; pretty much. middling, ..."
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