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   gaucherie
         n 1: the quality of being rustic or gauche [syn: {rusticity},
               {gaucherie}] [ant: {urbanity}]
         2: a socially awkward or tactless act [syn: {faux pas}, {gaffe},
            {solecism}, {slip}, {gaucherie}]

English Dictionary: gouger by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gawker
n
  1. a spectator who stares stupidly without intelligent awareness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
geezer
n
  1. a man who is (usually) old and/or eccentric
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Geiger
n
  1. German physicist who developed the Geiger counter (1882-1945)
    Synonym(s): Geiger, Hans Geiger
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
geyser
n
  1. a spring that discharges hot water and steam
v
  1. to overflow like a geyser
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gouger
n
  1. an attacker who gouges out the antagonist's eye
  2. a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud
    Synonym(s): swindler, defrauder, chiseller, chiseler, gouger, scammer, grifter
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
guacharo
n
  1. nocturnal fruit-eating bird of South America that has fatty young yielding an oil that is used instead of butter
    Synonym(s): oilbird, guacharo, Steatornis caripensis
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
guesser
n
  1. a person who guesses
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gusher
n
  1. an oil well with a strong natural flow so that pumping is not necessary
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      Note: The common species of Northern Africa ({Gazella
               dorcas}); the Arabian gazelle, or ariel ({G. Arabica});
               the mohr of West Africa ({G. mohr}); the Indian ({G.
               Bennetti}); the {ahu} or Persian ({G. subgutturosa});
               and the springbok or tsebe ({G. euchore}) of South
               Africa, are the best known.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gadolinium \Gad`o*lin"i*um\, with an assigned atomic weight of
      153.3. Gaekwar \Gaek"war\, n. [Also Gaikwar, Guicowar.]
      [Marathi g[be]ekw[be]r, prop., a cowherd.]
      The title of the ruling Prince of Baroda, in Gujarat, in
      Bombay, India.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gager \Ga"ger\, n.
      A measurer. See {Gauger}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gagger \Gag"ger\, n.
      1. One who gags.
  
      2. (Founding) A piece of iron imbedded in the sand of a mold
            to keep the sand in place.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gauger \Gau"ger\, n.
      One who gauges; an officer whose business it is to ascertain
      the contents of casks.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gawky \Gawk"y\, a. [Compar. {Gawkier}; superl. {Gawkiest}.]
      Foolish and awkward; clumsy; clownish; as, gawky behavior. --
      n. A fellow who is awkward from being overgrown, or from
      stupidity, a gawk.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gazer \Gaz"er\, n.
      One who gazes.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Geezer \Gee"zer\, n. [Dial. corrupt. of {Guiser} a mummer.]
      A queer old fellow; an old chap; an old woman. [Contemptuous,
      Slang or Dial.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Geyser \Gey"ser\, n. [Icel. geysir, fr. geysa to rush furiously,
      fr. gj[omac]sa to gush. Cf. {Gush}.]
      A boiling spring which throws forth at frequent intervals
      jets of water, mud, etc., driven up by the expansive power of
      steam.
  
      Note: Geysers were first known in Iceland, and later in New
               Zealand. In the Yellowstone region in the United States
               they are numerous, and some of them very powerful,
               throwing jets of boiling water and steam to a height of
               200 feet. They are grouped in several areas called
               geyser basins. The mineral matter, or geyserite, with
               which geyser water is charged, forms geyser cones about
               the orifice, often of great size and beauty.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Gigerium \[d8]Gi*ge"ri*um\, n.; pl. {Gigeria}. [NL., fr. L.
      gigeria, pl., the cooked entrails of poultry.] (Anat.)
      The muscular stomach, or gizzard, of birds.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Goosery \Goos"er*y\, n.; pl. {Gooseries}.
      1. A place for keeping geese.
  
      2. The characteristics or actions of a goose; silliness.
  
                     The finical goosery of your neat sermon actor.
                                                                              --Milton.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gouger \Gou"ger\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      See {Plum Gouger}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Goujere \Gou"jere\, n. [F. gouge prostitute, a camp trull. Cf.
      {Good-year}.]
      The venereal disease. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Guesser \Guess"er\, n.
      One who guesses; one who forms or gives an opinion without
      means of knowing.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Guiser \Guis"er\, n. [From {Guise}.]
      A person in disguise; a masker; a mummer. [Obs. or Prov.
      Eng.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gusher \Gush"er\, n.
      One who gushes. [Colloq.]

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Geiger, AL (town, FIPS 29392)
      Location: 32.87369 N, 88.31337 W
      Population (1990): 270 (83 housing units)
      Area: 2.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Geyser, MT
      Zip code(s): 59447

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Geshur
      bridge, the name of a district or principality of Syria near
      Gilead, between Mount Hermon and the Lake of Tiberias (2 Sam.
      15:8; 1 Chr. 2:23). The Geshurites probably inhabited the rocky
      fastness of Argob, the modern Lejah, in the north-east corner of
      Bashan. In the time of David it was ruled by Talmai, whose
      daughter he married, and who was the mother of Absalom, who fled
      to Geshur after the murder of Amnon (2 Sam. 13:37).
     

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Gezer
      a precipice, an ancient royal Canaanitish city (Josh. 10:33;
      12:12). It was allotted with its suburbs to the Kohathite
      Levites (21:21; 1 Chr. 6:67). It stood between the lower
      Beth-horon and the sea (Josh. 16:3; 1 Kings 9:17). It was the
      last point to which David pursued the Philistines (2 Sam. 5:25;
      1 Chr. 14:16) after the battle of Baal-perazim. The Canaanites
      retained possession of it till the time of Solomon, when the
      king of Egypt took it and gave it to Solomon as a part of the
      dowry of the Egyptian princess whom he married (1 Kings
      9:15-17). It is identified with Tell el-Jezer, about 10 miles
      south-west of Beth-horon. It is mentioned in the Amarna tablets.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Gazer, a dividing; a sentence
  

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Geshur, Geshuri, sight of the valley; a walled valley
  

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Gezer, dividing, sentence
  
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