Goloshes (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Goloshes

i.e. Goliah’s shoes. Large leathern clogs, worn by invalids over their ordinary shoes.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

Gollumpus * Good Man

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Nathan Bailey's 1736 Dictionary of canting and thieving slang

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