1891. Morning Advertiser, 2 Mar. It’s my birthday; let’s gargle.
Gargle-Factory, subs. (common).—A public house. For synonyms, see Lush Crib.
Garn, intj. (vulgar).—A corruption of Go on! Get away with you!
1888. Runciman, The Chequers, p. 80. Garn, you farthin’ face! She your neck.
1892. Ally Sloper, 19 Mar., p. 90, c. 3. Gar’n, you men ain’t got no sense.
1892. National Observer, 6 Feb. p. 307, c. 2. And so simple is the dictum, so redolent of the unlettered Arry that we long to add garn, oo’re you gettin’ at? [[120]]
Garnish, subs. (old).—1. A fee or footing (q.v.); specifically one exacted by gaolers and old prisoners from a newcomer. The practice was forbidden by 4 Geo. IV., c. 43, sec. 12. Also Garnish-Money.
1592. Greene, Quip, in works, xi., 256. Let a poore man be arrested into one of the counters [prisons] … he shall be almost at an angel’s charge, what with garnish [etc.].
1606. T. Dekker, Seven Deadly Sinnes, p. 28 (Arber’s ed.). So that the Counters are cheated of Prisoners, to the great dammage of those that shoulde have their morning’s draught out of the garnish.
1632. Jonson, Magnetic Lady, v. 6. You are content with the ten thousand pounds Defalking the four hundred garnish-money?