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Gonin

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Cʹest un Maître Gonin. He is a sly dog. Maître Gonin was a famous clown in the sixteenth century. “Un tour de Maître Gonin” means a cunning or scurvy trick. (See Aliboron.)

 

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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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Gombeen Man (The)
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Gondola
Gone Coon (A)
Gone to the Devil
Gone Up
Goneril
Gonfalon
Gonfanon
Gonin
Gonnella’s Horse
Gonsalez [Gon-zalley]
Gonville College (Cambridge)
Good
Good-bye
Good-Cheap
Good Duke Humphrey
Good Folk (Scotch guid folk)
Good Form, Bad Form
Good Friday

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