gonnof v.
to steal, to rob, to deceive; thus gonnofing or gonophin, stealing, deception.
Reprinted Pieces (1899) 143: From the swell mob, we diverge to the kindred topics of cracksmen, fences... designing young people who go out gonophing, and other ‘schools’. | ‘The Detective Police’ in||
Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 93/1: There they used to talk over ‘gonnoffing,’ plan robberies, ‘fence their swag,’ leave their ‘tools,’ &c. | ||
Sl. Dict. 184: A gun’s practice is known as gunoving. | ||
Sporting Times 22 May 3/4: ‘Them Phillipses was always a gonophin’ lot [...] Old Abe Phillips once gave a blind man a French halfpenny an’ sneaked his dog’. | ||
Sporting Times 15 Feb. 2/2: Ve bowled Aaron Motzaberger out in a peautiful piece o’ gonophin the other day. | ‘Houndsditch Day by Day’ in||
Signor Lippo 104: What’s he been up to? Gonnofing? | ||
Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 3 Oct. 1/2: Three twopenny stamps that were on the table could not be found after Sol had left, and it’s 10 to one that he gonnoffed them. | ||
Vocab. Criminal Sl. 38: gonif [...] to rob. | ||
Destination: Morgue! (2004) 309: We gonifed a golf cart and coursed out on the course. | ‘Hot-Prowl Rape-O’ in