To give (or get) goss, verb. phr. (American).—To requite an injury; to kill; to go strong; to get an opportunity; to put in big licks (q.v.). Sometimes ejaculatory, as ‘Give me goss and let me rip!’
1847. Robb, Squatter Life, p. 75. Gin him goss without sweetin.
1847. Darley, Drama in Porterville, p. 114. Divers hints passed from one to another among the more excitable citizens, that ‘Old Sol’ was going to get goss, sure.
1847. Porter, Quarter Race, etc., p. 115. Shouts of ‘Fair play,’ ‘Turn ’em out,’ ‘Give him goss,’ were heard on all sides.
a. 1852. Traits of American Humour, II., 261. Ef I don’t, the old man will give me goss when I go back.
Gossoon, subs. (colloquial Irish).—A boy. [A corruption of Fr., garçon = a boy.]
Gotch-gutted, adj. (old).—Pot-bellied; ‘a gotch in Norfolk, signifying a pitcher or large round jug.’—Grose.
Got ’em Bad, phr. (common).—A superlative of earnestness or excessiveness: e.g., anyone doing his work thoroughly, a horse straining every nerve, a very sick person, especially a patient in the horrors (q.v.), is said to have got ’em bad.
Got ’em On (or All On), phr. (common).—Dressed in the height of fashion. See Rigged Out.
1880. Punch, 28 Aug., p. 90.