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A corruption of Arvyst Gos (a stubble goose). (See Wayz-goose.)
“A young wife and an arvyst gos,
Moche gagil [clatter] with both.”
Reliquiœ Antiquœ, ii. 113.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.