Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In costermongers' slang, a cheap red-skinned apple, which is rubbed hard with a cloth to give it the appearance and feeling of an apple of superior quality.
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Examples
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May 8, 2008 at 2:00 pm gawf bawls hare nets icki ol shooz j.
this is the LAST TIME - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Meanwhile, I gotta bolt for gawf and then Greek food.
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Tell yu gurls whut – I’m fixin tu go wawk de PGA golf turnamint tu watch hour buddee Dicky Pride plays sum gawf…its 18 holes / abowt 4+ hours / an abowt 5 myles…if yu gurls don’t git yur wawks in tudai, yu kin hab sum ov myne – win ai gits bak ai’ll bee hawt an tyred enuff fur us awl.
Molly’s attempts to enter cyberspace - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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[233] “Her pomp,” says Knox himself, “lacked one principal point, to wit, womanlie gravity for when she saw John Knox at the other end of the table, she first smiled, and after gave ane gawf lauchter.
Luther and Other Leaders of the Reformation 1823-1886 1883
qms commented on the word gawf
If Eliza Doolittle could pull it off
Then Ernest could pass for a toff.
The thought quite amuses:
With rouge for his bruises
This biffin could sell as a gawf.
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April 20, 2015