To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1430595 ) 12/25/2023 7:32:39 PM From: Maple MAGA 2 RecommendationsRecommended By
Respond to I did not misspell anything..."You are a fool and scumbag..simpleteon and a goat" - marthabella Gaby Talk A Child’s Garden of Verses , which originally appeared in 1885, and which I first read a little while after that, when I was about five. I came across one line from a poem called “Good and Bad Children” that puzzled me then and puzzled me once more seventy-five years later.Cruel children, crying babies, All grow up as geese and gabies, Hated, as their age increases, By their nephews and their nieces. gaby ? Oxford English Dictionary , was in Grose’s Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue in 1796.gapa , which came down to us through Old English, and means “an openmouthed stare of wonder or awe.” Some experts want to connect it to the Iceland gapi , which means a “rash or reckless person.” But no one has come up with a completely convincing rationale, so we’ll have to leave it hanging.
