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GAB . or GOB. The mouth. Gift of the gab; a facility of speech, nimble tongued eloquence. To blow the gab; to confess, or peach.
GAB . or GOB, STRING. A bridle.
GABBY . A foolish fellow.
GAD-SO . An exclamation said to be derived from the Italian word cazzo.
GAFF . A fair. The drop coves maced the joskins at the gaff; the ring-droppers cheated the countryman at the fair.
GAG . An instrument used chiefly by housebreakers and thieves, for propping open the mouth of a person robbed, thereby to prevent his calling out for assistance.
GAGE . A quart pot, or a pint; also a pipe. CANT.
GAGE . or FOGUS. A pipe of tobacco.
GAGGERS . High and Low. Cheats, who by sham pretences, and wonderful stories of their sufferings, impose on the credulity of well meaning people. See RUM GAGGER.
GALIMAUFREY . A hodgepodge made up of the remnants and scraps of the larder.
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