Gawvison

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of gorbuson. Northern-England, alt-of, alternative, archaic

    "Why, you're a gawvison for not knowing what it is—I thought ye Londoners ha knawn every thing—a gawvison's a ninny hammer—Now, do you, think, Sur, at I look ought like a gawvison?"

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"Why, you're a gawvison for not knowing what it is—I thought ye Londoners ha knawn every thing—a gawvison's a ninny hammer—Now, do you, think, Sur, at I look ought like a gawvison?"

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