Golopshus

splendid, delicious, luscious.— Norwich. Gonnof , an expert thief, a master of his craft; one of the greatest compliments a London pickpocket can pay another is to say, “he’s a reglar GONNOF .”— See GUN . The word GONNOF is very old. During Kett’s rebellion in Norfolk, in the reign of Edward VI., a song was sung by the insurgents in which the term occurs— “The country GNOFFES , Hob, Dick, and Hick, With clubbes and clouted shoon, Shall fill up Du yn dale With slaughter’d bodies soone.”