goozle
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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As one old-timer described it, “Stick’im right in th’goozle’ere.”
From Slate
"I happen to know about the business that fetched you here, an' I mighty nigh swallered my goozle when I seed you makin' for Jonas's."
From Project Gutenberg
There is still no N service in Brooklyn.” so the subways aren’t back — goozle If I’m not mistaken, the large number of abandoned vehicles had significantly slowed the city’s abililty to clean streets in a timely manner.
From New York Times
For the 18th Century, Pompadour, Lady Hamilton and Josephine wage their own private wars against the ravages of time while a woman hangs by her chin from a hook to reduce her "goozle" and two men at a windlass lace up the corset of the mural's only fat woman.
From Time Magazine Archive
Doesn't the Goody goozle at you about him, though?
From Project Gutenberg
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