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Gander-cleugh

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Folly cliff; that mysterious land where anyone who makes a “goose of himself” takes up his temporary residence. The hypothetical Jedediah Cleishbotham, who edited the Tales of My Landlord, lived there, as Sir Walter Scott assures us.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Gammut, or Gamut (g hard)
Gamp (Mrs.)
Gamps and Harrises
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Gander-month
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Ganem (g hard)
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Gang a-gley (To)
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