Goose Gibbie
.A half-witted lad, who first “kept the turkeys, and was afterwards advanced to the more important office of minding the cows.” (Sir Walter Scott: Old Mortality.)
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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.