Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A gaby; a simpleton.
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Examples
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'You great gaupus, for all you're called cousin o' th 'minister -- many a one is cursed wi' fools for cousins -- d'ye think
Cousin Phillis Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837
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And the great gaupus never seed that I were pipeclaying the same places twice over.
Ruth Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837
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