subs. (common).—The month after confinement; when a certain license (or so it was held) is excusable in the male. Also GANDER-MOON, the husband at such a period being called a GANDER-MOONER. Cf., BUCK-HUTCH and GOOSE-MONTH.
1617. MIDDLETON, A Faire Quarrell, iv., 4. Wondering GANDER-MOONERS.
1653. BROME, The English Moor, iii. 1, in Five New Playes.
| I’le keep her at the least this GANDER MONETH, | |
| While my fair wife lies in of her black face. |
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.
1811. GROSE and CLARKE, Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.
