English Wordbook/G
From The Anglish Moot
Staff G of the English Wordbook.
| gabbling | adj | tungy, all-tongue, mouthy, gossipy |
| Gadlic | n | Albanish, Eastern Irish, Scottish Irish ("Erse" in Braid Scots/ Inglis), "Gaidhlig" |
| Gaelic | n | Irish, Western Irish, "Gaeilge" |
| gain | vb | get, win, earn, yield |
| galactose | n | brainsugar |
| galaxy | n | Milky Way (as seen from Earth), starswirl (spiral galaxy) |
| gallery | n | arthall |
| galley-ship | n | oarsteed |
| galosh | n | (watertight) overshoe |
| garage | n | roadhut, wainhold |
| garden | n | greenyard, yard |
| gardener | n | yardman, yardworker, greenthumb |
| garland | n | wreath |
| garments | n | clothes |
| garrulous | adj | long-winded, jabber-jawed, talksome, wordy |
| gas | n | wind, loft, |
| gay | adj | blithe, blithesome, blissful, blissome, merry, happy |
| gecko | n | quack[lizard] |
| gem | n | athelstone |
| gene | n | kinth, kind, bequeathling |
| genealogy | n | kinlore, folklore, forelderlore |
| general | n | headman, herethane, fyrdlord |
| general | adj | kindly, kinly, overall |
| generally | adv | kindly, kinly, overall, all in all |
| generate | vb | kin, work, make |
| generation | n | brood, kith-end(Scots), lifetime(s), span, lifespan, |
| generic | adj | unbranded |
| generous | adj | kind, openhanded |
| generously | adv | kindly, handsomely, freely |
| genetics | n | kinthlore, kindlore, bequestlore |
| genial(fr. Gk. genikos) | adj | chinly, chinwise, friendly, lively |
| genitive case | n | holding namefall |
| genius | n | brightmind, braininess, brain, great mind, keen-witiness |
| genocide | n | kinslaughter, folkslaughter, bulkslaughter |
| genome | n | bequest, growthplot |
| gentle | adj | kindly, mild, soft |
| gentleman | n | kindlyman knut, coxcomb, dandy, man about town |
| genuflect1 | vb | kneel, kneebow, kneegrovel, kneebend |
| genuflect2 | n | kneepit |
| genuine | adj | true, heartfelt, good, hearty, echt |
| geography | n | earthkerf, landlore |
| geology | n | earthlore, stonelore |
| geometry | n | shapelore, earthmeting, earthreckoning |
| geostationer | adj | earthfested |
| geothermal | adj | earthwarmed |
| geranium | n | cranebill |
| gerbil | n | [desert]rat |
| geriatric | n | bodach |
| germ | n | harmful brod |
| German | adj | Dutsh |
| German | n | Dutshman |
| Germanic | adj | Thedish |
| Germany | name | Dutshland, Teutonland |
| germinate | vb | bud, sprout, shoot, blossom, burst forth, grow up, put forth, take root, spring up, thrive |
| ghetto | n | jewstead, jewstow, blackstead, soweto, walled town, walled-burgh, wretchstead, banestead, needstow, lowstead, grimthorp |
| giant | n | ettin |
| gingiva | n | gum, teeth('s) flesh |
| girrafe | n | reachneck |
| global | adj | worldwide |
| Global English | n/adj | see: AngloUS, Anglonic |
| globalisation | n | oneworldness, worldspanning |
| globe | n | worldball, world, earth, earthball, ball |
| gloriously | av | merthly |
| glory | n | merth |
| glucose | n | mustsugar |
| glue | vb | stick, cling, bond, cleave |
| glycerine | n | sweetoil |
| glycogeen | n | sinewsugar |
| goddess | n | godin, gidin |
| godparent | n | godfather or godmother, godsib |
| goitre | n | big-throat |
| govern | vb | beright, besteer, rede |
| governance | n | berighting, rikedom, reding |
| governor | n | leader, kithhead, headman, besteerer, folksteerer, helmsman, steersman |
| government | n | besteering, rike, rikebesteering, rikesteering, ritch folksteering, folk(dom)running, thedewielding, redeship |
| grace | n | will |
| grallatores | n | waders |
| grand | adj | great, lordly |
| grand theft auto | n | great road theft |
| grandfather | n | greatfather, elderfather |
| grandiloquence | n | high-spokenness, high-talkingness |
| grandiloquent | adj | high-speaking, high-talking |
| grandiose | adj | high-sounding |
| granite | n | moorstone |
| grant | vb | bestow, give |
| grape | n | wineberry |
| graphic design | n | draughtsmanship, draughtswomanship, draughtstership |
| graphic designer | n | draughtsman, draughtswoman, draughtster |
| graphite | n | black lead |
| grateful | adj | thankful |
| gratitude | n | thankfulness |
| gratuitous | adj | free |
| Great Depression | n | Great Slump |
| greave | n | bonrift |
| Greece | n | Greekland (OE Grecland), Grickland (Laym. Griclond) |
| Greek | adj | Greekish |
| grenade | n | springapple |
| gridiron | n | bakering |
| grief | n | ruth |
| grieve | vb | mourn |
| grocer | n | greenmonger |
| group | n | bunch, crowd, team, gang, cluster, crop, flock, shoal |
| grume | n | blood, red gold |
| guano | n | dung |
| guarantee | vb | safeguard |
| guard | vb | ward, shield, umstand |
| guard | n | lookout, watchman |
| guardian | n | swinward, keeper |
| guide | vb | lead |
| guided | adj | leaded |
| gulf | n | searm |
| gullet | n | throat, craw, maw |
| gully | n | draw(shallow), |
| gyroscope | n | - |
