goll n.2
a synon. for God in a variety of oaths (cf. golly! excl.).
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Seven Years of a Sailor’s Life 212: By gol-ormity, massa. | |
 | Amer. Punch Apr. 56/1: Is this yer a goll durned Republic where every sole kin kerry a gatlin under his cote tale an’ vote as often as he pleezes? [DA]. | |
| Fables in Sl. (1902) 80: Goll bing me if I think you’re wuth the Powder to blow you up. | |
| S.F. Call 14 Oct. 6/3: I’ll be gol-popped if the eitor of the Plain Dealer ain’t an enthusiastic cuss! | |
| ‘Words from Northwest Arkansas’ in DN III:ii 138: golram it, interj. Mild form of God Damn it. | |
| Bismarck Dly Tribune (ND) 23 Aug. 8/2: From a man who lives in Connecticut come ‘gol dast it’ and ‘by the terminal bowwows’. | |
| Dingbat Family 26 Mar. [synd. cartoon strip] I hope that hat gives him [i.e. a camel] acute indigestion!! Gol-dazzle ’im!!! |
In exclamations
a euph. for by God!
| Virgin Unmasked (1777) 3: Why then, by goles, I will tell you – I hate you. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Miss Lucy in Town in Works IV (1766) 264: By Gole, I believe I shall never be a fine Lady . | |
| Lethe (5th edn) Epilogue: Next time, by golls, I’ll taste before I buy. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Midas III ii: He shall rue on his knees ’em, / Or skip, by goles, / As high as Paul’s. | |
| Trip to Scarborough V ii: By goles, they look so fine and so stiff. | |
| Post Captain (1813) 28: By goles, if I don’t go up my self directly I know Mr Factor will be squalling. | |
| ‘Macbeth’ in Smith Rejected Addresses 114: Hark, hark, ’tis the signal by goles. | |
| Amoroso, King of Little Britain 9: By goles I’ll kill the queen and marry you. | |
| ‘Sammy Simpleton’ London Songster 19: With two small dice, he in a trice / Von every mag, by gole. | |
| Annals of Sporting 1 Feb. 116: Jenny say quaw, by goles. | |
| Paul Clifford II 114: And if Scarlet Jem were not good at a press, By Goles, it would soon be all up with us all! | |
| Ely’s Hawk & Buzzard (NY) Sept. 21 n.p.: I wonder, by goll, what’s the matter. | |
| ‘The Lady’s Water-Spout’ in Randy Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) I 210: For she gave him her hand, and her fortune, by gole, / To look after the spout and to fill up the hole. | |
| ‘Nothing Like Pride About Me’ Dublin Comic Songster 255: My old gal and I often goes / Through Regents Park for a stroll; / And a black boy in livery clothes / He arter us follows, by gole! | |
| Mysteries of London II (2nd series) 19: ‘By goles!’ ejaculated Dykes. | |
| Nonsense and Tomfoolery 12: And, by goll [...] that flag allez sounds hollow. | |
| Tamworth Herald 22 Nov. 3/2: By goles, it was good luck that sent me here this night! | |
| Scarlet City 38: And, by goles [...] haven’t I had the same, Captain Franklyn? |