The family gloogo comes to dinner regularly on Wednesdays and Sundays. (See Xenogore.) Elsie Peach’s gloogo calls every day and always invites her to everything. Mrs. Valentine’s maid-servant is a gloogo—she loves to have extra company for dinner.
You are a gloogo, if you read Burgess Unabridged all through.
John Smith was a gloogo of forty-five,
And he worked like a piece of machinery;
He was fond of his wife (who was still alive),
And he always took lunch in a beanery.
He went to church, and he didn’t drink,
And he had no sins, no mystery;
And that’ll be all about him, I think,—
For Gloogos seldom make history.
Goig, n. A suspected person; one whom we distrust instinctively; an unfounded bias; an inexplainable aversion.
Goig´some, a. Dubious; requiring references or corroboration.
To one from Missouri, the world is full of goigs. Well you have to “show me,” too, when the new janitor takes possession of the cellar—he’s a goig. There’s the man with the perpetual smile; he’s a goig. Why do we watch the gentleman whose collar buttons behind, or the dog who doesn’t wag his tail? There’s something goigsome about them. He “listens well,”—but! I ha’e me doots! (See Eegot.)
To the fondly doting mother, her son’s sweetheart is always a goig. When he’s engaged, she is still more goigsome. Once married, and the suspense is over. (See Frime.)
Would you be a goig? Then shave your upper lip and grow a chin beard.
The servile affability of an English shopkeeper, rubbing his hands—how goigsome! So is your wife’s man-friend, and the new cook.