subs. (common).—A frumpish or uncultured person; one behind the times or ignorant of the ways of society.
1712. Spectator, No. 367. But I shall never sink this paper so far as to engage with GOTHS and Vandals.
1751. SMOLLETT, Peregrine Pickle, ch. lxi. You yourself are a GOTH … to treat with such disrespect a production which … will, when finished, be a masterpiece of its kind.
1865. OUIDA, Strathmore, ch. ii. For God’s sake don’t suppose me such a GOTH that I should fall in love with a dairymaid, Strath!
