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Sport 39: 2011
THREE WORDS BEGINNING WITH G
THREE WORDS BEGINNING WITH G
Giggles. I grew up thinking this was the name for fish-guts, when you cleaned them out. I thought I had learnt it from my mother. But she consistently denied ever having used the word. I still sometimes look for it, in dictionaries and online. But I can’t find it anywhere.
Guddle was certainly my mother’s word, though it’s hard to find strong instances of it in the world of lexicography. It means a muddle, a sort of giddy muddle, a mess. ‘I’m in a real guddle today.’
Gloopy. One of the great onomatopoeic words. It was worth half learning Russian at the age of 17 to find this word. It means stupid. But that ‘y’ is deep somehow, not high. Gloopy, gloopy, gloopy.