The _Spectator_ termed a dandy a “Jack-pudding,” and Goldsmith calls him a “macaroni,” “The Italians,” he says, “are extremely fond of a dish they call macaroni, ... and as they consider this as the _summum bonum_ of all good eating, so they figuratively call everything they think elegant and uncommon macaroni. Our young travellers, who generally catch the follies of the countries they visit, judged that the title of _macaroni_ was very applicable to a _clever fellow_; and accordingly, to distinguish themselves as such, they instituted a club under this denomination, the members of which were supposed to be the standards of _taste_. The infection at St. James’s was soon caught in the City, and we have now macaronies of every denomination, from the Colonel of the Train’d-Bands down to the printer’s devil or errand-boy. They indeed make a most ridiculous figure, with hats of an inch in the brim, that do not cover, but lie upon the head; with about two pounds of fictitious hair, formed into what is called a _club_, hanging down their shoulders, as white as a baker’s sack; the end of the skirt of their coat reaching not down to the first button of their breeches.... Such a figure, essenced and perfumed, with a bunch of lace sticking out under _its_ chin, puzzles the common passenger to determine the _thing’s_ sex; and many have said, _by your leave, madam_, without intending to give offence.” The Americans give the name of “dude” to one who apes the manners of swells. It may be this word originated from a comparison between the tight and light-coloured trousers sported by swells, and the stem of a pipe termed “dudeen” by the Irish. Compare the French expression “boudiné,” literally _sausage-like_, for a swell in tight clothing. GOMORRHE, _m._ (familiar), un émigré de ----, _Sodomite_. GONCE, GONSE, GONZE, _m._ (thieves’), _man_, or “cove.” GONCESSE, GONZESSE, _f._ (thieves’), _woman_, “hay-bag, cooler, or shakester.” GONCIER, or GONCE, _m._ (thieves’), man, or “cove.” GONDOLÉ, _adj._ (thieves’ and popular), avoir l’air ----, _to look ill_. Un homme ----, _high-shouldered man_. GONFLE-BOUGRES, _m._ (thieves’), _beans_, the staple food of prisoners. GONFLER. See BALLON. (Popular) Se ----, _to be elated_. Mon vieux, c’que tu peux t’gonfler d’gagner des coupes Renaissance!--_Le Cri du Peuple_, 17 Août, 1886. Se ---- le jabot, _to look conceited_. Tu es un bon artiste, c’est vrai, mais, vrai aussi, tu te gonfles trop le jabot.--=E. MONTEIL.= GONSALÉ, _m._ (thieves’), _man_, or “cove.” Si le ---- fait de l’harmonarés, il faut le balancarguer dans la vassarés, _if the man is not quiet, we’ll throw him into the water_. GONSARÈS, _m._ (thieves’), _man_. A form of gonse. GONSE, _m._ (thieves’ and popular), _man_, or “cove.”