_She eat the gooweddy_
gold-withy An expression that I've heard around the Islington area. It means that a woman is pregnant. Some people use it to mean any woman but most people use it when referring to an unwed girl. [reverse] It is a term used to poke fun at the person. It puts the young woman on the level of a sh...
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Language: | English |
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Online Access: | http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/29013 |
Summary: | gold-withy An expression that I've heard around the Islington area. It means that a woman is pregnant. Some people use it to mean any woman but most people use it when referring to an unwed girl. [reverse] It is a term used to poke fun at the person. It puts the young woman on the level of a sheep or cow because usually when animals eat gooweddy they become poisioned and their stomachs swell up. Thus when a womans stomach gets big she is said to have eaten the gooweddy. (They always say "she eat" or "she ate") DICT CEN. JW Used I and Sup Used I and Sup Not used This is the first half of a two-sided card. The second side is G_14261. |
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