The Foolish Dictionary Words starting with G

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.
GUM : A substance for sticking.
GUM-GAME : A game in which some one is stuck.
GUNPOWDER : A black substance much employed in marking the boundary lines of nations.

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