gloomy Gus
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gloomy Gus — n. a sad or dismal person; a pessimist. □ Don’t be such a gloomy Gus, Wal ly. □ Well, gloomy Gus just came in again … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
Gloomy Gus — noun, plural (Gloomy Guses; also Gloomy Gusses) Usage: often not capitalized 1st G Etymology: from a comic strip character created by Frederick Burr Opper died 1937 American cartoonist Date: 1904 a person who is habitually gloomy … New Collegiate Dictionary
gloomy Gus — noun someone with a habitually sullen or gloomy expression • Syn: ↑sourpuss, ↑picklepuss, ↑pouter • Derivationally related forms: ↑pout (for: ↑pouter) • Usage Domain … Useful english dictionary
Gloomy Gus — Gustav Mahler … Eponyms, nicknames, and geographical games
gloomy — 1580s, probably from GLOOM (Cf. gloom) even though that word is not attested as early as this one is. Shakespeare used it of woods, Marlowe of persons. Gloomy Gus used in a general sense of sullen person since 1940s, from a comic strip character… … Etymology dictionary
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