| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
Gordon (ˈɡɔːdən) ![]() | |
| —n | |
| 1. | Adam Lindsay. 1833--70, Australian poet and horseman, born in the Azores, who developed the bush ballad as a literary form, esp in Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes (1870) |
| 2. | Charles George, known as Chinese Gordon. 1833--85, British general and administrator. He helped to crush the Taiping rebellion (1863--64), and was governor of the Sudan (1877--80), returning in 1884 to aid Egyptian forces against the Mahdi. He was killed in the siege of Khartoum |
| 3. | Sir Donald. born 1930; South African businessman |
| 4. | Dexter (Keith). 1923--90, US jazz tenor saxophonist |
| 5. | Lord George. 1751--93, English religious agitator. He led the Protestant opposition to legislation relieving Roman Catholics of certain disabilities, which culminated in the Gordon riots (1780) |
| 6. | George Hamilton. See (4th Earl of) Aberdeen |