GRUB STREET. A street near Moorfields, formerly the supposed habitation of many persons who wrote for the booksellers: hence a Grub-street writer means a hackney author, who manufactures booss for the booksellers. GRUB STREET NEWS. Lying intelligence. TO GRUBSHITE. To make foul or dirty. GRUMBLE. To grumble in the gizzard; to murmur or repine. He grumbled like a bear with a sore head. GRUMBLETONIAN. A discontented person; one who is always railing at the times or ministry. GRUNTER. A hog; to grunt; to groan, or complain of sickness. GRUNTER'S GIG. A smoaked hog's face. GRUNTING PECK. Pork, bacon, or any kind of hog's flesh. GRUTS. Tea. GUDGEON. One easily imposed on. To gudgeon; to swallow the bait, or fall into a trap: from the fish of that name, which is easily taken. GULL. A simple credulous fellow, easily cheated. GULLED. Deceived, cheated, imposed on. GULLGROPERS. Usurers who lend money to the gamesters. GUM. Abusive language. Come, let us have no more of your gum. GUMMY. Clumsy: particularly applied to the ancles of men or women, and the legs of horses. GUMPTION, or RUM GUMPTION. Docility, comprehension, capacity. GUN. He is in the gun; he is drunk: perhaps from an allusion to a vessel called a gun, used for ale in the universities. GUNDIGUTS. A fat, pursy fellow. GUNNER'S DAUGHTER. To kiss the gunner's daughter; to be tied to a gun and flogged on the posteriors; a mode of punishing boys on board a ship of war. GUNPOWDER. An old Woman. CANT. GUTS. My great guts are ready to eat my little ones; my guts begin to think my throat's cut; my guts curse my teeth: all expressions signifying the party is extremely hungry. GUTS AND GARBAGE. A very fat man or woman. More guts than brains; a silly fellow. He has plenty of guts, but no bowels: said of a hard, merciless, unfeeling person. GUTFOUNDERED. Exceeding hungry. GUT SCRAPER, or TORMENTOR of CATGUT. A fiddler. GUTTER LANE. The throat, the swallow, the red lane. See RED LANE. GUTTING A QUART POT. Taking out the lining of it: i. e. drinking it off. Gutting an oyster; eating it. Gutting a house; clearing it of its furniture. See POULTERER. GUY. A dark lanthorn: an allusion to Guy Faux, the principal actor in the gunpowder plot. Stow the guy: conceal the lanthorn. GUZZLE. Liquor. To guzzle; to drink greedily. GUZZLE GUTS. One greedy of liquor. GYBE, or JYBE. Any writing or pass with a seal. GYBING. Jeering or ridiculing. GYLES, or GILES. Hopping Giles; a nick name for a lame person: St. Giles was the tutelar saint of cripples. GYP. A college runner or errand-boy at Cambridge, called at Oxford a scout. See SCOUT.