Old Pros
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Why not indeed?
Someone who hunts moles (moler) or looks after a flock of geese (gozzard). A gooseherd.
"Why should gaulters and bankers only have double pay; why not
molers and
gozzards
also?"
Sabine Baring-Gould, Cheap-Jack Zita (1893).
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