GOAT The honored founder and oldest inhabitant of Harlem, N. Y.
Elsewhere, not in good odor.
GOLF An excuse for carrying unconcealed weapons and a Scotch
breath.
GONDOLA A pleasure craft which plies in Venice, at World's Fairs
and other popular watering places. From Eng. gone, and Lat. dolor,
sadness, or Eng. dollar. Sadness gone; also, a gone dollar.
GORE Blood. Shed daily in Chicago abattoirs but never spilled in
French duels.
GOSSIP Derived either from the Grk. gups, vulture, or Fr. gosier,
wind-pipe. Hence, a vulture that tears its prey to bits, or an
exercise of the wind-pipe from which every victim gets a blow.
GOUT The undesirable scion of High Living, which frequent the
lowest joints and is mentioned only in the Invalid's Foot-Notes.
GOWN From Lat. gaudium, joy. A thing of beauty and a joy forever;
if from Paris, generally an article of some Worth.
GUNPOWDER A black substance much employed in marking the boundary
lines of nations.
GUM A substance for sticking.
GUM-GAME A game in which some one is stuck.
GUTTER A school in which we may study the dregs of humanity or
read the reflection of the stars.
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