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gabber   -   the noise of talking 

gaffer   -     the master, overseer 

gafty    -    vicious, roguish 

gallous   -    mischievous

(by) galores   -     abundantly 

gammock     -     fun and games 

gape     -     to yawn 

gawby    -     foolish, idiotic 

gawky    -     a clownish, awkward person

gawfin      -    a clown

gawm      -       to grasp, or to comprehend 

gawmless      -       dull, lacking understanding 

gennell, ginnell     -      alleyway, small passage

getherin'      -     a collection

Brown George      -       common sort of bread

Gib & Gill     -     male and female ferret

Gillhooter     -     an owl

gizzum       -     the mouth

glab, glabber   -    foolish, idle talk 

glassey    -      a marble made of coloured glass 

glaster       -      a mixture of buttermilk and water 

gleeds     -       the red hot embers of a wood fire

gleg      -       to look furtively or askance 

glent, glint    -       a glimpse 

gloppen, gloppent       -       to astonish or stupefy

glottened, glockent     -       astonished or stupefied

glore      -      a glow 

gobba-gaw     -       a foolish chatterbox 

Gobbinshire     -       "Gobbinshire, Gobbinshire,

                                Gobbinshire Green,

                                The ronkest owd beggar

                                as ever was seen" 

goblin,goosegog     -    a gooseberry, also goosgog

goggaz     -     to stare 

gollop, gollup     -     swallow greedily

gommeril     -      a foolish or awkward person 

*Goody     -      familiar greeting to an old woman

gradely     -       orderly, normal, well-appointed, with nothing                           lacking (from Icelandic greidligr = ready) 

graft     -        a spade's depth 

granny-reared      -       an over-indulged, spoilt child 

grashun    -       ripe fruit

grein linnet     -      the greenfinch 

grien winter      -       a warm winter, without much frost or                                     snow 

grew      -        to stick to a saucepan 

grig      -        heather, from the Welsh grug

griggy     -      a louse, from the Welsh grugiad = an ant 

grinagog       -       a stupid grinning person 

grindlestone     -       grinding stone, saddle quern

grout/growt       -       poor beer

grubbed     -        envious, jealous 

grump        -       to crunch 

grunt     -       to grumble 

guardful      -       careful 

guggle       -       to swallow

gulch       -      to bulge out, burst out 

gulf    -         to swallow greedily 

gullet        -      a long, narrow piece of land or a narrow alley,                        street 

gully        -         a gosling, generally a very young one - older                          goslings are gyezlin'

Guttit     -        Good-tide or Shrove -tide

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