gorbuson
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- gaubison (Yorkshire), gauvison, gavyson, gawvandhra (Yorkshire), gawison, gawvison, gorbuzon, gorvison, govison
Noun
[edit]gorbuson (plural gorbusons)
- (archaic, Nottinghamshire) A stupid person; a simpleton; an idiot.
- 1836, Charles Hooton, The Adventures of Bilberry Thurland, volume 2, page 98:
- When I got into the kitchen, my mother looks at me; 'Sam,' says she, 'what have you done with your waistcoat?' 'Why, noat,' says I, and I looked down at it; and, like a great gorbuson as I was, I had forgot to put it on, and there if I hadn't bin to church without my waistcoat.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:gorbuson.
Synonyms
[edit]- See Thesaurus:idiot
References
[edit]- Wright, Joseph (1900) The English Dialect Dictionary[1], volume 2, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 687