"gauvison" meaning in English

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "!"
      },
      "expansion": "gauvison (plural not attested)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "gorbuson"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Northern England English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Yorkshire English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "4 96",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "22 78",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English nouns with unattested plurals",
          "parents": [
            "Nouns with unattested plurals",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "gauvey"
        },
        {
          "word": "gauving"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1870 March 10, “The Chronicles of Heatherthorp”, in Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, volume 18, number 121, page 70",
          "text": "'And why sud ye, Mr. Arthur? 'specially aboot such a gauvison as awd Barjona. He's like a coo, has twea sides to his tung, a rough un and a smooth un; but neebody minds him, sir, nae matter which side he licks 'em with.'",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1878 January 10, “Local Notes and Queries”, in The Yorkshire Magazine, volume 2, number 16, page 192",
          "text": "Gauvison.—It is customary amongst the country people of Yorkshire, when wishing to designate a person as awkward and foolish to call him \"a gurt Gauvison!\" Whence comes the word \"Gauvison?\" Is it, as I have heard it asserted, the name of an old Yorkshire highwayman; and if so why should his name be used with such a significance?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative spelling of gorbuson"
      ],
      "id": "en-gauvison-en-noun-V8f-EJxe",
      "links": [
        [
          "gorbuson",
          "gorbuson#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic, Northern England, especially Yorkshire) Alternative spelling of gorbuson"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Northern-England",
        "Yorkshire",
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "archaic",
        "especially",
        "no-plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "gauvison"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more gauvison",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most gauvison",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "gauvison (comparative more gauvison, superlative most gauvison)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Yorkshire English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1875, James Burnley, “A Run Through Craven”, in West Riding Sketches, pages 83–84",
          "text": "At this inn we hear the Craven dialect in all its purity, but as a certain anonymous writer has said in that speech, \"What a fearful girt gauvison mun he be at frames to larn th' talk of another country afore he parfitly knaws his awn,\" I will not attempt to transfer this peculiar language to print.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Silly; foolish."
      ],
      "id": "en-gauvison-en-adj-abVyTD1-",
      "links": [
        [
          "Silly",
          "silly"
        ],
        [
          "foolish",
          "foolish"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic, Yorkshire) Silly; foolish."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Yorkshire",
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "gauvison"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English nouns with unattested plurals"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "gauvey"
    },
    {
      "word": "gauving"
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "!"
      },
      "expansion": "gauvison (plural not attested)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "gorbuson"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Northern England English",
        "Yorkshire English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1870 March 10, “The Chronicles of Heatherthorp”, in Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, volume 18, number 121, page 70",
          "text": "'And why sud ye, Mr. Arthur? 'specially aboot such a gauvison as awd Barjona. He's like a coo, has twea sides to his tung, a rough un and a smooth un; but neebody minds him, sir, nae matter which side he licks 'em with.'",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1878 January 10, “Local Notes and Queries”, in The Yorkshire Magazine, volume 2, number 16, page 192",
          "text": "Gauvison.—It is customary amongst the country people of Yorkshire, when wishing to designate a person as awkward and foolish to call him \"a gurt Gauvison!\" Whence comes the word \"Gauvison?\" Is it, as I have heard it asserted, the name of an old Yorkshire highwayman; and if so why should his name be used with such a significance?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative spelling of gorbuson"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "gorbuson",
          "gorbuson#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic, Northern England, especially Yorkshire) Alternative spelling of gorbuson"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Northern-England",
        "Yorkshire",
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "archaic",
        "especially",
        "no-plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "gauvison"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English nouns with unattested plurals"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more gauvison",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most gauvison",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "gauvison (comparative more gauvison, superlative most gauvison)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Yorkshire English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1875, James Burnley, “A Run Through Craven”, in West Riding Sketches, pages 83–84",
          "text": "At this inn we hear the Craven dialect in all its purity, but as a certain anonymous writer has said in that speech, \"What a fearful girt gauvison mun he be at frames to larn th' talk of another country afore he parfitly knaws his awn,\" I will not attempt to transfer this peculiar language to print.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Silly; foolish."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Silly",
          "silly"
        ],
        [
          "foolish",
          "foolish"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic, Yorkshire) Silly; foolish."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Yorkshire",
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "gauvison"
}