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(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) Mouth. quotations
White thy fambles, red thy gan / And thy quarrons dainty is. / Couch a hogshead with me then. / In the darkmans clip and kiss.
1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 3]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […]
(archaic) simple past of gin
third-person singular simple present gans, present participle gannin, simple past went, past participle gone
(Northumbria) To go. quotations examples
The one problem I had here was my broad Geordie accent which the teachers tried their hardest to make me lose. I couldn't understand their problem with it because I could understand myself. Whenever I told them, "Am gannin yem", they would say, "No, Christopher. It's not "am gannin yem", it's "I am going home".
2011, Chris Dockerty, Ramblings of a Geordie