Lexicographical Neighbors of Gaupus
Literary usage of Gaupus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1828)
"... Till we read as we run WRIGHT'S IN THE COLONNADE!—SOHO HOLDS EADY! BUY, IF
YOU BEN'TA BEAR, BUY BOBBY WARD'S DE VERÉ ! , ' Glower, gaupus, ..."
2. Handlingar (1903)
"11; Cf. Am. gilly 'a fool', and Sc. gilly-gaupus 'a tall loutish fellow' 1785
Grose FA. p. 80, l. 6: si. ..."
3. Noctes Ambrosianæ by John Wilson, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, James Hogg, William Maginn, John Gibson Lockhart (1866)
"SOHO HOLDS EADI t BUY, IF YOU BKN'TA BEAK, BUY BOBBY WARD'S DE VERB I Glower,
gaupus, and shool out the ready I ..."
4. A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongueby Francis Grose by Francis Grose (1796)
"GILLY gaupus. A Scotch term for a tall awkward fellow. GILT, or RUM DUBBER.
A thief who picks locks, fo called from the gilt or picklock key : many of them ..."
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