188(?). Broadside Ballad, ‘’Arry.’ Where are you going on Sunday, ’Arry, now you’ve got ’em on?
188(?). Broadside Ballad. ‘He’s got ’em on.’
Goth, subs. (common).—A frumpish or uncultured person; one behind the times or ignorant of the ways of society.
1712. Spectator, No. 367. But I shall never sink this paper so far as to engage with Goths and Vandals.
1751. Smollett, Peregrine Pickle, ch. lxi. You yourself are a Goth … to treat with such disrespect a production which … will, when finished, be a masterpiece of its kind.
1865. Ouida, Strathmore, ch. ii. For God’s sake don’t suppose me such a Goth that I should fall in love with a dairymaid, Strath!
Gotham, subs. (common).—New York City. Gothamite, a New Yorker. [First used by Washington Irving in Salmagundi (1807).]
1852. Jutson, Mysteries of New York. ch. xiii. One of the vilest of all hells in Gotham.
1852. Bristed, Upper Ten Thousand, p. 37. The first thing, as a general rule, that a young Gothamite does is to get a horse.
Gothic, adj. (old).—See Goth.