Definition of Gawsie

1. well-fed and healthy looking [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gawsie

gawm
gawmless
gawn
gawns
gawntree
gawntrees
gawp
gawped
gawper
gawpers
gawping
gawpingly
gawps
gawpus
gawpuses
gawsie (current term)
gawsier
gawsiest
gawsy
gay-feather
gay-friendliness
gay-marry
gay 90s
gay apparel
gay bars

Literary usage of Gawsie

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns by Robert Burns, William Ernest Henley (1897)
"God fate the King 'в л cuckoo sang That 'a unco валу said ay." gawsie ... limb an' gawsie middle," 105 j (2) buxom and jolly : " a ..."

2. The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns (1909)
"gawsie, buxom; jolly. Gear, money, wealth; goods; stuff. Geek, to sport; toss the head. Ged, a pike. Gentles, gentry. Genty, trim and elegant. ..."

3. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"In a letter of the following February Carlyle speaks of him as ' a broad gawsie Greenock man, old-growing, loveable with jobbery ; (2) 'The Radical : ' and ..."

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