gauvison

adj

gauvison

adj
1

Yorkshire, Archaic Silly; foolish.

  • At this inn we hear the Craven dialect in all its purity, but as a certain anonymous writer has said in that speech, "What a fearful girt gauvison mun he be at frames to larn th' talk of another country afore he parfitly knaws his awn," I will not attempt to transfer this peculiar language to print.1875, James Burnley, “A Run Through Craven”, in West Riding Sketches, pages 83–84:

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