Thursday, March 28, 2019

GEGGIE

I saw this same volume at the bookstore for $12 (or something like that) a month ago and decided to just wait until I found one in the wild. Yesterday was that day.

GEGGIE

A "penny gaff"; a cheap vaudeville show; showmen's, EX gag? Also spelt geggy.



from Partridge's Concise Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English edited by Paul Beale

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