Gusher, one overflowing with sentiment, a rhapsodizer. Romance-reading young ladies are generally described as GUSHING, and of late years the word GUSH has done duty as representing the newspaper work necessary for a continuance of the “largest circulation.”
Gut scraper, a fiddler.
Gutter blood, a low or vulgar man.—Scotch.
Gutter lane, the throat. Probably from GUTTUR.
Guttle, see [GUZZLE].
Guy, a fright, a dowdy, an ill-dressed person. Derived from the effigy of Guy Fawkes carried about by boys on Nov. 5. “Hollo, boys, another GUY!”
Guy, to get away. Same as [HEDGE] in street phraseology, which see.
Guzzle, to eat or drink to excess; to eat loudly, hastily, and clumsily.
Gyp, an undergraduate’s servant at Cambridge. Popularly derived by Cantabs from the Greek, GYPS, (γύψ), a vulture, from the dishonest rapacity peculiar to GYPS. At Oxford servants are called scouts.
Hackle, pluck; “to show HACKLE,” to be willing to fight. Hackles are the long feathers on the back of a cock’s neck, which he erects when angry,—hence the metaphor.