subs. (old).—A lying story; a flim-flam tale; that is, a piece of reading for a GOOSE, sense 2.
1815. SCOTT, Guy Mannering, ch. xxxiv. Lieutenant Brown … told him some GOOSE’S GAZETTE about his being taken in a skirmish with the land-sharks.
subs. (old).—A lying story; a flim-flam tale; that is, a piece of reading for a GOOSE, sense 2.
1815. SCOTT, Guy Mannering, ch. xxxiv. Lieutenant Brown … told him some GOOSE’S GAZETTE about his being taken in a skirmish with the land-sharks.
