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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—G

Goose Gibbie

A half-witted lad, who first “kept the turkeys, and was afterwards advanced to the more important office of minding the cows.” (Sir Walter Scott: Old Mortality.)

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