(UK, slang, obsolete) The White Swan, a celebrated public house in Ratcliff Highway, east London, England.
(UK, slang, obsolete) The White Swan, a celebrated public house in Ratcliff Highway, east London, England.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(UK, slang, obsolete) A Greenwich pensioner.
Greenwich goose is a piece of obsolete British slang for a pensioner of the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich — one of the naval veterans housed at the institution. The term is mocking or affectionate depending on context, playing on the idea of these old sailors being kept and fed like geese in an enclosure. Entirely archaic, it belongs to the 18th and 19th century vocabulary of British naval culture and is of historical and linguistic interest only.
(UK, historical) A club for working-class people, allowing them to save money towards a goose for Christmas dinner.
(archaic, idiomatic, UK) To suddenly put a stop to a disturbance by force or threats.