Brewer's: Goldy

The pet name given by Dr. Johnson to Oliver Goldsmith. Garrick said of him, “He wrote like an angel and talked like poor Poll.” (Born Nov. 29, 1728; died April 4, 1774.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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