goles ? Obs.
Also 8 gole.
[Deformation of god; cf. golly and the U.S. forms goldam, -darn, -dasted.]
Only in the exclamation (by) goles = (by) God (see god 13).
| 1734 Fielding Virgin unmasked (1777) 3 Why then, by goles, I will tell you—I hate you. 1742 ― Miss Lucy in Town 9 By Gole, I believe I shall never be a fine Lady. 1788 Poetry in Ann. Reg. 185 Lord how the Beaux do stare! Goles, what a heap! 1837 Lytton E. Maltrav. iv. vii, ‘By goles, but you're a clever fellow.’ |