gorbuson

English

Alternative forms

• gaubison (Yorkshire), gauvison, gavyson, gawvandhra (Yorkshire), gawison, gawvison, gorbuzon, gorvison, govison

Noun

gorbuson (plural gorbusons)

1. (archaic, Nottinghamshire) A stupid person; a simpleton; an idiot.
   • 1836, Charles Hooton, The Adventures of Bilberry Thurland, volume 2, page 98:

     When I got into the kitchen, my mother looks at me; 'Sam,' says she, 'what have you done with your waistcoat?' 'Why, noat,' says I, and I looked down at it; and, like a great gorbuson as I was, I had forgot to put it on, and there if I hadn't bin to church without my waistcoat.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:gorbuson.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:idiot

References

• Wright, Joseph (1900) The English Dialect Dictionary‎^[1], volume 2, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 687