Chapter Gargittios to Gaunt of G by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Gauche (French, the left hand). Awkward. Awk, the left hand. (See Adroit.)

Gaucherie (3 syl., g hard). Things not comme il faut; behaviour not according to the received forms of society; awkward and untoward ways. (See above.)

Gaudifer (g hard). A champion, celebrated in the romance of Alexander. Not unlike the Scotch Bruce.

Gaudy-day (A). A holiday, a feastday. (Latin gaudeo, to rejoice.)

Gaul (g hard). France.

"Insulting Gaul has roused the world to war."
Thomson: Autumn.

"Shall haughty Gaul invasion threat?" - Burns.

Gaunt (g hard). John of Gaunt. The third son of Edward III.; so called from Ghent, in Flanders, the place of his birth.