Go

GO, v. and sb. Var. dial. uses in Sc. Irel. Eng. and Amer. I. v. Gram. forms. 1. Present Tense: (1) Ga, (2) Gaa, (3) Gae, (4) Gah, (5) Gau, (6) Gauh, (7) Gay, (8) Gea, (9) Geae, (10) Geaw, (11) Ge, Gee, (12) Geu, (13) Gie, (14) Goa, (15) Goe, (16) Goeth, (17) Goo, (18) Gooa, (19) Gowe, (20) Gu, Gue, (21) Guy, (22) Gwain, Gwaine, (23) Gwo, Gwoә, (24) ? Yeand. [For further instances see II below.] (1) Cum.1, n.Yks.1, w.Yks.4, Lan.1, n.Lan.1, ne.Lan.1 (2) Nhb.1 (s.v. Kaa). Wm. He gaas net to kirk, Hutton Bran New Wark (1785) 454. w.Yks.1, ne.Lan.1 (3) N.Cy.1 Nhb.1 Gae doon the toon an' seek the milk. Dur.1, n.Yks.1 n.Yks.2 m.Yks.1 Very well, mother; let him gae. w.Yks.1 (4) Nhb.1 (s.v. Kaa). s.Wm. Gah hëam (J.A.B.). ne.Yks.1, m.Yks.1 (5, 6) m.Yks.1 (7) n.Cy. (Hall.), Glo.1 (8) m.Yks.1, w.Yks.1 (9) Sc. Murray Dial. (1873) 205. (10) w.Yks. Watson Hist. Hlfx. (1775) 538; w.Yks.4 (11) N.Cy.1 Cum.1 He gez wid his feet breadd side furst. (12) e.Dev. Ai shall up an' geu voäth ta th' town, Pulman Sng. Sol. (1860) iii. 2. (13) N.Cy.1 (14) n.Yks. Don't goä oot te-day, Linskill Betw. Heather and N. Sea (1884) vi. m.Yks.1 w.Yks. On I mud goa, Cudworth Dial. Sketches (1884) 16. (15, 16) Wxf.1 (17) e.Lan.1, Chs.1 Stf.1 I wunna goo. Der.2 Wu't goo wi' mey. s.Not. (J.P.K.) Lin. But Parson a comes an' a goos, Tennyson N. Farmer, Old Style (1864) st. 7. War.2 Introd. 15. m.Wor. (J.C.), Suf. (F.A.A.) Sur.1 I see him goo straight away across two fields. Sus. Well, gentlemen, I'll goo, I'll goo, Egerton Flk. and Ways (1884) 55. I.W.1 Wil. Slow Gl. (1892). w.Som.1 Dev. Zimon lad, thee mun goo to bed to onst, Longman's Mag. (Dec. 1896) 153. (18) w.Yks.2; w.Yks.4 Gooa abaht thee bisness. Der.1 se.Wor. I have never heard any but old persons pronounce the word ‘go' in this way. (19) Cum. Wull ta gowe wie me? (E.W.P.) (20) w.Yks. Guә, Wright Gram. Wndhll. (1892) 143. Lan. Gut' Rachdaw weh a keaw, Tim Bobbin View Dial. (1740) 11. Ken. No gu nigh de hosses, Nairne Tales (1790) 57, ed. 1824. (21) I.Ma. (S.M.) (22) Nhp.2 Will you gwain wi' me? (23) Lan. Ut gwoes bith neame o' Kopper Nob, Scholes Tim Gamwattle (1857) 10. Glo. Dunt 'e gwo far off, Gissing Vill. Hampden (1890) I. i. (24)? n.Cy. Grose (1790) [misprint for ‘yeaud’]. 2. Imp.: (a) 2nd pers. (1) Goes, (2) Goise, (3) Goos. (1) e.Suf. Goes away! (F.H.) (2) F.H. (3) Cor. Goos 'ome, Thomas Randigal Rhymes (1895) Gl.; ‘Goos-along!’ she said, Camborne Alm. (1894) 100. (b) [Used in 1st or 2nd pers. pl. as an invitation to accompany the speaker.] (1) Gawa, (2) Gow, (3) Gowa, (4) Gowe. (1) w.Yks. Gawa [go we, let us go], Thoresby Lett. (1703); w.Yks.4 (2) Lakel.1 (s.v. Gang). Cum. An' then gow to Carel wi' me, Gilpin Sngs. (1866) 257; Let's gow to Rosley Fair, Anderson Ballads (ed. 1808) 1. e.An.1 A farmer observed, that when his mother called the maids at ‘milking-time,’ she never said ‘go,’ but ‘gow.’ Suf.1 (3) n.Cy. Holloway. Lakel.1 Gowa seems equivalent to ‘go away’ and is now ‘howay’ (s.v. Gang). Cum. To a person about to leave, ‘Let's gowa’ (E.W.P.); Cum.1 The industrious farmer says, ‘Come, gowa to yer wark wid me, lads.’ The indifferent farmer says, ‘Howay to yer wark, lads,’ and leaves them to themselves. Yks. I'm faairly clammed, gowa, Fetherston T. Goorkrodger (1870) 158. n.Yks.2 w.Yks.1 It is always used in the way of invitation, and refers to the act of one person accompanying another: ‘Come gowa toth' kirk.’ (4) Cum.1 3. Prp.: (1) Gaain, Gaaing, (2) Gaan, (3) Gaayn, (4) Gaein, Gaeing, (5) Gaen, (6) Gahin, (7) Gahn, (8) Gain, (9) Gan, (10) Gaun, (11) Gawin, (12) Gawn, (13) Geann, (14) Gewing, (15) Gine, (16) Goan, (17) Gooen, (18) Gooin, (19) Goon, (20) Guaying, (21) Guin, (22) Guining, (23) Gwain, Gwaine, (24) Gwainin, (25) Gwane, (26) Gwaning, (27) Gwaying, (28) Gween, (29) Gwine, (30) Gwoan, (31) Gwoing, (32) Gwyin, (33) Gwyn, (34) Gyaan, (35) Gyaun, (36) Gyin, Gying, (37) Gyne. (1) Sc. (Jam.) Wm. She es gaain toth this show, Wheeler Dial. (1790) 113, ed. 1821. m.Yks.1 Introd. 35. Lan. Now gaain' straight, Harland & Wilkinson Flk-Lore (1867) 60. (2) Nhb.1 Them at's gaan up. Cum.1 (3) m.Yks.1 Introd. 35. (4) Mry. The auld familiar faces, noo, wi' our youth are gaein awa, Hay Lintie (1851) 43. m.Yks.1 w.Yks. We're gaeing ta bring thee a new brat, Lucas Stud. Nidderdale c. 1882) 253. ne.Lan.1 (5) Abd. I was jist gaen up the stair, Alexander Johnny Gibb (1871) viii. Cum. 'At tou'd gaen to dee for a hizzy, Gilpin Sngs. (1866) 256. (6) n.Yks. Ah's gahin' yam, Tweddell Clevel. Rhymes (1875) 68. ne.Yks.1 Wheer's ta gahin'? e.Yks.1 (7) s.Wm. Whar's ta gahn? (J.A.B.) (8) Bnff.1 n.Yks. A wәz gāin әwōkin wi ūәr bāns (W.H.). w.Yks. Tha's gain to kill thysel (F.P.T.). nw.Dev.1 (9) Nhb. Luiking up At the procession gan to Swalwell, Marshall Sngs. (1829) 17. e.Dur.1 When used as an auxiliary verb it becomes ‘gan.’ ‘A's gan to’ [sae·] ‘ (see),’ A's gan to dae't.’ Cum.3 I's gān to eddle my five shillin' middlin' cannily, 2. n.Lan. Ut share whativer's gā'n! Lonsdale Mag. (July 1866) 19. (10) Sc. But ye are no gaun awa? Scott Midlothian (1818) v. Cum. Gâun ta shût, mister? Farrall Betty Wilson (1886) 6. (11) Nhb. Here there wis plenty gawin and comin, Wilson Pitman's Pay (1843) 58. Wm. Yur not gawin' out? Ward Elsmere (1888) bk. 1. ii. (12) Sc. Now he's gawn anither's for to be, Shepherd's Wedding (1789) 8. Elg. Yer gawn abroad Sammy, Tester Poems (1865) 107. Slg. Aft, aft she spoke o' gawn awa, Towers Poems (1885) 173. Nhb. That wor affairs were gawn aglee, Wilson Pitman's Pay (1843) 56. (13) Cum.1 (14) Ess. You're a-gewing to yer long home, Master French, Longman's Mag. (Jan. 1893) 311. (15) w.Yks. Lucas Stud. Nidderdale c. 1882). (16) Ir. Boys goan home from the fair, Paddiana (ed. 1848) I. 98. Wxf.1 (18) Lan. Gooin on at th' owd bat, Clegg David's Loom (1894) ii. Chs.1 Wheer art gooin? Stf., War. (J.A.L.), Oxf.1 Sus. What be you gooin' to do? Egerton Flk. and Ways (1884) 53. (19) Ess.1 (20) s.Wor. Porson Quaint Wds. (1875) 13. (21) Not.2 (22) War.4 Where be you a guining? (23) Stf. Where be'st thee gwain? Knight Quart. Mag. (1823) 300. se.Wor.1 Glo. Bist a gwain to murther I? R. Plowman, 15. Wil. Slow Gl. (1892). Dor.1 Som. Sweetman Wincanton Gl. (1885). Dev.2 Where be 'e gwain to? Cor.2 (24) se.Wor.1 I be a gwainin wum. (25) Sus. (F.A.A.) (26) Oxf. Be you gwaning up the road, Mary? Progress Mary and Me (1863) 191. (27) Hrf.2 (28) Sus. (F.A.A.) (29) Sus. (F.A.A.) I.W. Zay wot bist thee gwine wee he vor to doo, Moncrieff Dream (1863) 54. Dev. I were gwine up street, Longman's Mag. (Dec. 1896) 155. [Amer. Dial. Notes (1896) I. 68.] (30) Lan. Un id o gwoan wi us izel, Scholes Tim Gamwattle (1857) 3. (31) Stf., Wor. He be a gwoing to take to that farm (G.M.). (32) Hrf.2 (33) Sus. He sed he must be gwyn, Lower Tom Cladpole (1831) st. 42. (34) nw.Abd. The mist's gyaan aff the Tap o' Noth, Goodwife (1867) st. 46. (35) Abd. It's gyaun to be ca'd Marget, Alexander Ain Flk. (1882) 30. (36) n.Yks.2 I's gying te gan. e.Yks.1 (37) Cum. Is thee gyne for a bit o' brecken? Caine Hagar (1887) iii. 4. Prp. in comb. with to: (1) Ganna, (2) Gauna, (3) Gaunna, (4) Ginnie. (1) Fif. Now, Willie lad, I'm ganna gie You twa or three directions, Douglas Poems (1806) 70. (2) Sc. Ye'll no' hae heard that Peter's gauna tak' a wife, Swan Gates of Eden (1895) ii. (3) Fif. There's gaunna be an unco crap the 'ear, Robertson Provost (1894) 19. (4) Rnf. The beast at me was ginnie bark, Webster Rhymes (1835) 181. 5. Preterite: (1) Gade, (2) Gae, (3) Gaed, (4) Gahd, (5) Gaid, (6) Geade, (7) Geead, (8) Geed, (9) Gied, (10) Gode, (11) Goed, (12) Gone, (13) Gooad, (14) Goode, (15) Güd, Güde, (16) Guid, (17) Yede, (18) Yeed, (19) Yewd, (20) Yod, (21) Yode. [Also used as pret. forms of Gan, Gang, v. (q.v.)] (1) Sc. To Embro town ye gade awa, Shepherd's Wedding (1789) 10. Abd. Yet I gade o'er nae that unswack, Beattie Parings (1801) 6, ed. 1873. Frf. Where aft he gade, Piper of Peebles (1794) 9. Edb. Twae birkies on a day Gade out to tak a wee glif play, Crawford Poems (1798) 66. n.Yks.2 (2) n.Yks.2 (3) Sc. My faither and me gaed hame again, Stevenson Catriona (1893) xv. N.Cy.1, Nhb.1 n.Yks.1 My wo'd! Bud he gaed sharp! ne.Lan.1 (4) Wm. He gahd hiam (B.K.). (5) Nhb.1 (6) Sc. Murray Dial. (1873) 205. (7) n.Yks.2 (8) ne.Sc. They geed t'the mill, Gregor Flk-Lore (1881) 15. Cai.1, n.Yks.1, m.Yks.1, w.Yks.1, Nrf. (W.W.S.) (9) n.Sc. The kevels they gied thro' the ha’, Buchan Ballads (1828) I. 200, ed. 1875. (10) Glo. When I gode over the hill, Gissing Both of this Parish (1889) I. 101; Glo.1 Glo.2 (11) n.Lin.1 Efter we'd talk'd a bit, he goed one way an' I goed anuther. w.Som.1 But a always goed clappaty like. Dev. He goed, Bowring Lang. (1866) I. pt. v. 26. (12) Ayr. From me her course she steer'd, And gone I know not whither, Burns Joyful Widower, st. 2. s.Wor. I gone alung thot fŭtwahy munny's the time (H.K.). Lei.1 28. (13) n.Yks. (I.W.) (14) w.Wor. He runde awaay, or goode awaay, S. Beauchamp N. Hamilton (1875) I. 94. (15) Sh.I. Behold a saar güd furt ta saa, Parable of the Sower (Coll. L.L.B.). (16) Sh.I. I... made da ring a' eddy afore we guid furt, Sh. News (Aug. 20, 1898). (17) n.Yks. I yede ymel Dent and Gawthrop, Sedgwick Mem. Cowgill Chapel (1868) 82. (18) Abd. Some elder fowks... Yee'd to the pantry ben the house, Shirrefs Poems (1790) 215. (19, 20) Der.1 Obs. (21) Glo.1 Glo.2 6. pp.: (1) Gaan, (2) Gaed, (3) Gaen, (4) Gain, Gaine, (5) Gane, (6) Gayn, (7) Gean, Geane, (8) Geayne, (9) Geean, (10) Geen, (11) Geyan, (12) Geyen, (13) Geyn, (14) Gian, (15) Gien, (16) Go, (17) Goan, (18) Goned, (19) Goo, (20) Gooan, (21) Goon, (22) Guәn, (23) Gwon, Gwone, (24) Gwun, (25) Gyan, (26) Gyen, (27) Went. [Also used as pp. of Gan, Gang, v. (q.v.)] (1) w.Yks.1, ne.Lan.1 (2) Per. A lot o' fowk gang because they've aye gaed, Fergusson Vill. Poet. (1897) 25. (3) Frf. The trade of late's gaen to the deil, Morison Poems (1790) 3. Peb. Awa you're gaen, Affleck Poet. Wks. (1836) 143. Nhb. He's gaen clean daft, Clare Love of Lass (1890) I. 29. m.Yks.1 [Ge·h'n], Introd. 35. w.Yks.1 (4) w.Yks. Lucas Stud. Nidderdale c. 1882); w.Yks.1 He's gain toth’ peeot moor, ii. 309. (5) Sc. The halt's gane now, Scott Midlothian (1818) ix. Nhb.1 (s.v. Gan). Dur.1, w.Yks.1 (6) Wm. Fer I'ze gayn nar ez thin ez a peelin, Blezard Sngs. (1848) 17. (7) Sc. Murray Dial. (1873) 205. Nhb. Thoo's been gean a gey bit to be gannin that fast, Clare Love of Lass (1890) I. 6. Cum.3 He thowte o' his trūbble was geàn, 163. m.Yks.1 [G:i·h'n], Introd. 35. w.Yks.1, n.Lan.1 (8) n.Yks. (I.W.) (9) n.Yks. Budnow them tahmes is geean, Tweddell Clevel. Rhymes (1875) 3; n.Yks.2, e.Yks.1 w.Yks. Ah izzant geean yet, Lucas Stud. Nidderdale c. 1882) 220. (10) Cai.1 (11) ne.Lan.1 (12) Nhb.1 (13) Nhb. Maw sweetheart wes vanisht an' geyn, Robson Evangeline (1870) Introd. 8. (14) n.Yks. War ez Riuth әn't childәr gian? (W.H.) (15) Dur. My mother hevin' gi'en to Aucklan’, Egglestone Betty Podkin's Visit (1877) 3. (16) n.Dev. Now, Jim, jist while the maids be go, Rock Jim an' Nell (1867) st. 59. (17) Yks. 'Twor all goan afore I got there, Taylor Miss Miles (1890) xiii. w.Yks.1, n.Lin.1 Sur. He be goan wrung in 's headworks, Bickley Sur. Hills (1890) I. v. (18) w.Som. Very zoon they'll be all a-goned, Athenaeum (Feb. 26, 1898). (19, 20, 21) w.Som.1 (22) w.Yks. Wright Gram. Wndhll. (1892) 143. (23) Lan. Every bit ov a stick were gwone, Clegg David's Loom (1894) iii. w.Cy. We's gwaïn to wed come zpring when rheumatiz be gwone, Cornh. Mag. (Apr. 1895) 394. Som. Jennings Obs. Dial. w.Eng. (1825). (24) se.Wor.1, Shr.1 (25) Cum. If I had gyan into Dublin be me sell, Lonsdale Mag. (Feb. 1867) 310. (26) Nhb.1 (27) Lei.1 28. s.Wor. I wa-anted to 'a' went (H.K.). w.Som.1 I should'n never i-went nif 't-'ad-n a-bin vor you. [Amer. I have went, Dial. Notes (1896) I. 7.] II. Dial. uses. 1. v. In comb. (1) Go-ashore or Go-shore, better clothes as distinguished from working or sea-going ones; (2) Go-by(e, (a) a slight, the act of passing by without recognition, gen. in phr. to give one the go-by(e, to give one the cold shoulder; (b) a cheat, an evasion, gen. in phr. to give one the go-by(e, to give one the slip, leave in the lurch; (c) in phr. to get, or give, the go-by, to excel, beat, surpass, to get the advantage; (3) Go-down, (a) the act of swallowing, a drink; the appetite; (b) a drinking-bout, frolic, ‘spree’; (4) Go-lattan or Go-lattin, (a) an accouchement; (b) a liquidation, breaking up of business, &c.; (5) Go-look, a tart, cheese-cake; (6) Go-off, in phr. (6) the first go-off, the beginning, outset; (7) Go-out, a dismissal, esp. in phr. to give the go-out, to dismiss, kill; (8) Go-through, labour, difficulty; a great tumult, bustle, fuss; (9) Go-to, (a) a brawl, squabble, bout, attack, set-to; a drubbing; (b) a fixed abode, place of resort. (1) Frf. After he had got his supper he shiftit himsel’, puttin' on his go-ashores, Willock Rosetty Ends (1886) 87, ed. 1889; He had a' his goshore suit hung oot on the backs o' chairs a' roond the hoose, Salmond My Man Sandy (1894) 119. (2, a) Sc. I would give Tam the go-by, Stevenson Catriona (1893) ii. Cai.1 To gie one 'e go by. Cld. He gied me the gae-by (Jam.). Gall. It argued sounder sense to give it the go-by, Crockett Grey Man (1896) 1. Nhb.1 Aa gav him the go-bye. Yks. (J.W.), Der.2, nw.Der.1 Not.1 A weant gie me the go-by. nw.Dev. He giv'd her the go-by (R.P.C.). Slang. The least egotistical of men... find it occasionally very hard to bear the cool ‘go-by’ the world gives them, Lever Martins (1856) II. xxvii. (b) Slg. (G.W.), n.Yks.2 w.Yks.1 When a hare has deceived its pursuers, it is said, she has given them the go by. n.Lin.1, Nhp.1, War.3, Hnt. (T.P.F.) Oxf.1 'E gived 'er the go-by, MS. add. nw.Dev. (R.P.C.) (c) Wm. He gat t'go-by when he selt t'bullocks. He gev o' t'other lads i' t'skeul t'go-by i' figurin' (B.K.). Brks.1 (3, a) Sc. A gude gaedown (Jam.). e.Lth. It was a puir meal we made atween us. I hadna my usual guid gae-doun, Hunter J. Inwick (1895). [On the morning of hunting he should be allowed from six to eight go-downs of water, Youatt Horse (1831) 138.] (b) Sc. A bit blithe gae-down we had in't, Scott Antiquary (1816) iv. (4, a) Bnff.1 (b) Abd. Meg Raffan taul me... that An'ro Langchafts was jist at the gae-lattin, Alexander Johnny Gibb (1871) xxix. (5) Lin.1 These are beautiful go-looks. (6) n.Cy. (J.W.) War.3 I couldn't manage it at all first go-off, but I've got into the swing of it now. w.Wor.1 The parson gied mĕ this 'ere coät. I didna war 'im every daay, not at the first go-off you knaows. se.Wor.1 (7) Wm. Glower'd as a stooat When a tarrier grabs it an' gi's it t'garooat, Spec. Dial. (1877) pt. i. 44. (8) Bnff.1, Rxb. (Jam.) (9) Lnk. (Jam.) Lan.1 Feight! He can feight noan, mon; he wur done up at th' first go-to. (b) Nrf. A loafer came up and asked Jim where our boat belonged. ‘She ain't got no go to, nor come from,’ Emerson Lagoons (ed. 1896) 40. 2. Comb. in oaths and exclamations: (1) Go awa' (g'wa), (2) Go awa' wi' ye, an exclamation of impatience, scorn, or disbelief; (3) Go bon (ye, (4) Go cab or Go keb (ye, an oath, expletive; (5) Go fell, an exclamation of pleased surprise; (6) Go hang or Go heng, see (4); (7) Go look, Gollook, or Gullook, ‘go and see,’ a resentful reply to a question; (8) Go set, (9) Go sims, see (4). (1) Sc. Company? gae wa’! Scott St. Ronan (1824) xvi. Ayr. ‘G'wa'! g'wa!’ quo' she, ‘wi' your ravlins and dressin'!’ Service Notandums (1890) 75. (2) ne.Sc. ‘Gae awa' wi' ye!’ quo' she, laughin'. ‘What can the war hae to dae wi' the price o' a canary?’ Grant Keckleton, 68. Cai.1 Frf. Gae wa' wi' ye, fu' could I guess! Inglis Ain Flk. (1895) 168. n.Yks.1 (3) Nhb. Go-bon, the queen, or misses, But wad, for Johnny's kisses, Luik upon as blisses Scrimp-meals, caff beds, and dairns, Thompson New Keel Row; Nhb.1, Cum.1 Wm. Go bon ye, are ye garn ta lig abed o' t'day? (B.K.) (4) n.Cy. Grose (1790); N.Cy.1 Go cab my lug. Nhb.1 Go keb, gan oot ma road. n.Yks.1 n.Yks.2 (5) e.Yks.1 Go-fell! lass, thoo is feyn an smart. (6) Abd. Ere I reply, ye'se a' gae hang, Shirrefs Poems (1790) To the Critics. I.Ma. Guy heng! I won't do it. You can do it yourself (S.M.); Guy heng The woman's mad, Caine Manxman (1894) pt. 1. iii. (7) n.Yks.1 n.Yks.2 w.Yks. Banks Wkfld. Wds. (1865); w.Yks.2 Go look, thou silly fool. Lan. ‘Thee gollook,’ said Bowzer, ‘dus tha think aw am a foo?’ Wood Hum. Sketches 10; Lan.1, e.Lan.1, m.Lan.1, Lin.1, Lei.1 (8) Nhb. Mr. Henderson preached a sermon to his parishioners upon the sin of using God's name so frequently in the modernized oath ‘Go-set’ (R.O.H.). (9) Wm. Go sims, I've missed mi train (B.K.). 3. Comb. with prep., adv., &c.: (1) Go about, (a) to stagger; (b) of a disease: to spread, be contagious; (2) Go abroad, to fall to pieces; dissolve; (3) Go across, to be transported; (4) Go afore or Go before, to fall over; (5) Go after, to court, woo; (6) Go again, (a) of frost: to appear in the form of hoar-frost in the morning and dissolve before the influence of the sun can affect it; (b) to oppose, hinder, trouble; (7) Go along wi' or Go 'longway, see (5); (8) Go an, to work for; (9) Go at, to do, work at, be employed on; (10) Go away, (a) to die; to faint, swoon; (b) of plants: to fade or wither before their time; (c) to leak; (d) of a river-bank, sluice, &c.: to break away; (11) Go awa’ with, to fail, go to ruin or wreck; (12) Go azew, of a cow: to dry up, cease to give milk; see A-sew; (13) Go back, (a) to grow worse, deteriorate, lose ground; to decline in health, fail, die; (b) to get behind-hand in money matters; (14) Go by, (a) refl. to be beside oneself, go off one's head; (b) to befall; (15) Go down, to be hanged; (16) Go enderds, to go on, get along; (17) Go for, to have the reputation of being or belonging to; (18) Go forrit, to receive the Sacrament; (19) Go in, (a) of a church, meeting, &c.: to begin, commence; (b) to resume work after a strike, accept terms; (c) to stand for an office; (d) to agree; (e) to shrink, contract; (f) to become bankrupt, ruined; to come to an end; (20) Go long, to pass by, cross over; to ford; (21) Go off, (a) to die of consumption; of plants: to fade, droop; (b) of a grinding-stone: to break; (c) to be the matter, to happen, stir; (d) to go away for a holiday; (22) Go on, (a) to make a fuss, disturbance, to rate, scold; to quarrel; to fret, grieve; (b) to behave badly, misconduct oneself; (c) to prosper; (d) to cease, leave off; (23) Go on at, to scold, rate, find fault with; (24) Go out, (a) of horses to turn to the outside or off-side; (b) of a church, assembly, &c.: to be ended, disperse; (c) of a bell: to toll; (d) to go away from home, take a holiday out of town; (e) to take part in a rebellion, esp. in the rebellions of 1715 and 1745; (25) Go over, (a) to swarm, be overrun; (b) to transcend, be beyond one; (c) see (3); (26) Go through, to bungle, come to grief; to waste, spend to the utmost; (27) Go to, (a) of the sun: to set; (b) see (22, a); (28) Go together, to be married; (29) Go under, to undergo, esp. to undergo a surgical operation; (30) Go up, to begin, commence; (31) Go with, (a) see (5); (b) to destroy, make away with; (c) to fail, be ruined; (d) see (4). (1, a) e.Suf. He du go about just as if he was drunk (F.H.). (b) Nrf. ‘What's the matter with your son?’ ‘Wall, Sir, I suppose 'tis the complaint what go about’ (W.P.E.). (2) Cor. I wish they'd make haste, the taties are all goo-en-abroad, and the pilshars are spooilen'! Forfar Pentowan (1859) i; Cor.1 The sugar has gone abroad; Cor.2 (3) Ir. Them that wor only slips when I wint acrass, Carleton Fardorougha (1836) 221. (4) Sh.&Ork.1 Yea, lamb, he's gaen afore [he has fallen over the banks or cliffs]. Or.I. If a man falls over the pier he is said to have gaen afore the quay (Jam.). (5) Nhb. Caws thoo's nut geayn eftor young men, nowther pooer nor rich, Robson Bk. Ruth (1860) iii. 10. Yks. (J.W.) s.Not. It were told me as you were going after Sam's Betty (J.P.K.). Nhp.1 Did you know our John goes a'ter your dahter War.2 Does John Jones go after Mary Smith? War.3 Often contracted to ‘after.’ Ess. He'd the pluck, at length, to tell His loave, an' har goo arter, Clark J. Noakes (1839) st. 28; Ess.1, Dor.1 (6, a) Lnk., Twd. This is viewed as an almost certain prognostic of rain sometime in the course of the day (Jam.). (b) Brks.1 His leg goes agin un when a walks up hill [he finds his leg pain or trouble him when going up hill]. (7) Oxf.1 MS. add. w.Som.1 Our Jane do go 'long way the young butcher Bishop ─ but lor! her widn have jich a fuller's he 'pon no 'count. (8) Oxf.1 I be agwain an fur Mr. Louch, MS. add. (9) Oxf.1 Used in reference to farm labour. ‘Master, what be I to go at?’ Brks.1 A labourer enquires in the morning, ‘What be I to go at to-daay?’ (10, a) Cld. (Jam.) Fif. When he was haudin' forth aboot the sea, an' its michty waves,.. She gaed awa in a fit, Robertson Provost (1894) 27. s.Sc. And nought could daunten us ava Till our auld gudeman he gaed awa', Allan Poems (1887) 125. Peb. Gae bring the Doctor! or a' houp will vanish frae my eyes ─ I'm ga-an away, Lintoun Green (1685) 58, ed. 1817. (b) n.Lin.1 Young plants, such as wheat or turnips, are said to ‘go awaay’ when they are eaten by insects or die from too much or too little moisture. (c) w.Som.1 Said of a pump, or of any leaky vessel ─ the water ‘goth away.’ (d) n.Lin.1 Yisterdaay th' Trent bank went awaay on Sir Robert's land at Butterwick for sixty yards together. (11) Sc. He's gane awa with (Jam.). (12) Dor. In course of time the cows would ‘go azew’ ─ that is, ‘dry up,’ Hardy Tess (1891) 140. (13, a) Cum. ‘How's t'fadder?’ ‘He's varra gone back leately’ (E.W.P.); Cum.1, m.Cum. (J.A.) w.Wor. If they hadna gone back, said he, S. Beauchamp Grantley Grange (1874) II. 51. s.Wor.1 se.Wor.1 I'm afear'd my ŏŏman 'll goo back; 'er's that wake [weak] 'er cun 'ardly stond wen 'er gets up out uv 'er cheer. Hrf.2 Glo. Those roots have gone-back ever so since this dry time (A.B.); They be all gone back, N. & Q. (1877) 5th S. viii. 226; Glo.1 Oxf.1 MS. add. Brks.1, Sur.1 w.Som.1 They beast be a-go back wonderful since I zeed 'em. Poor old fellow! I've a zeed he been going back 's ever so long. (b) w.Som.1 Aay bae·un een noa wún·durmunt dhu bae·uleez bee dhae·ur ─ ee bún gwai·n baa·k uz yuur·z [I am in no wonderment the bailiffs are there ─ he has been getting behind for years past]. (14, a) Ayr. The Laird's just gane by himself, Galt Lairds (1826) xxx; It's my opinion your father's gaun by himsel’, GALT Sir A. Wylie (1822) x. Cum.1 (b) Ayr. O! wae gae by his wanton sides, Burns Here's his health in water, l. 5; Wae gae by you, Duncan Gray, Burns Weary fa' you, Duncan Gray, st. 1. (15) Sc. The lasses and lads stood on the walls, crying, ‘Hughie the Græme, thou'se ne'er gae down,’ Scott Minstrelsy (1803) III. 89 (Jam.). (16) n.Lin.1 (17) w.Som.1 What is he? ─ Well there, he do go vor a ginlman like. Dhu plae·us au·vees wai·nt vur ee·z, búd núv·ur t-waud-n [The place was always reputed to belong to him, but (it) never did]. (18) Per. A' see it wudna be fit for the like o' me tae gae forrit, Ian Maclaren Brier Bush (1895) 169; Weel, Jessie, we're awfu' pleased tae think yer gaein forrit, IAN MACLAREN Brier Bush 125. (19, a) Sc. The church goes in (A.W.). Lnk. We played aye at twalhours Until the schule gaed in, Lemon St. Mungo (1844) 49. n.Cy. (J.W.), Oxf. (G.O.) s.Dev. Has prayer gon in? (F.W.C.) [Amer. The church goes in at 11 o'clock, Dial. Notes (1896) I. 59.] (b) n.Cy. (J.W.) s.Stf. I, for one, mean to goo in direc'ly they'n let me (T.P.). (c) Der. I didner care about ta'ing my coat off, but Jim Bradley... he says, ‘Thee go in, Dick,’ Wkly. Telegraph (Dec. 22, 1894). (d) e.Lth. Of coorse I didna gae in wi' his opeenions, Hunter J. Inwick (1895) 77; That's weel said, sir, an' I'll gae in wi' every word o't, HUNTER J. Inwick 49. Yks. (J.W.) (e) Sc. (Jam.) (f) Cor. Gone in, ess ee? Thomas Randigal Rhymes (1895) Gl.; That bal [mine] has gone in (M.A.C.). (20) w.Som.1 You bwoys off to be 'sheamed o' it, not to let the maaidens golong quiet like. Nobody cant go-long thick way, you'd be up to your ass in mud. The river was all out over the mead; cou'dn go- long 't-all. (21, a) w.Yks. But he went off and wer laid by soon efter (J.T.). Ken. The hops are all right, they're only going off. The plant has gone off a good bit (D.W.L.). (b) w.Yks. The grinder's ‘horse’ is placed immediately behind and partly over the stone... About a fortnight ago I heard a large stone break, or, as it is here termed, ‘go off.’.. The grinder was thrown upwards against the ceiling, N. & Q. (1867) 3rd S. xii. 192. (c) w.Yks. Theare wor summat goain' off wi' em, Hallam Wadsley Jack (1866) xviii. (d) Yks. ‘Wis gu(ә) of fər ә wik inā.’ ‘Wen ji bān of?’ (J.W.) (22, a) Sh.I. He wis gaein on ta get a bonnie skin fir a fit-bass, an' he'll no want ane noo, Sh. News (July 22, 1899). w.Yks. Sho did go on when he tell'd her hah mich he'd gi'en for't. When shoo heeard 'at Sam hed getten lamed shoo went on some- 'at awful (J.T.). Lan. Un eh, heaw hoo did goo on, Staton B. Shuttle, 70. Chs.1 n.Lin.1 I really wonder you can go on soä; ther's noht to complaain on, barrin' th' noise you mak' yersen. s.Not. How the master did go on, because I was that bit late (J.P.K.). w.Som.1 Th' old Jim Shallis and Bob Hart valled out last night 'bout the money vor cutting Mr. Pring's grass, and did'n em go on! nw.Dev.1 (b) n.Lin.1 w.Cy. I don't think when I wur your age I'd ha' kissed so free and gone on just as you was doing with a young feller, Longman's Mag. (Oct. 1897) 494. (c) w.Som.1 How's Bill M ─ going on? ─ I've a-yeard he idn gwain on nezackly. Our Bob's a steady chap, he'll go on, I'll warn un. nw.Dev.1 (d) w.Som.1 Only used in imper. In a quarrel either of the parties themselves, or a third who wishes to stop it, says, ‘go on.’ (23) Yks. (J.W.) Chs.1 Oo does go on at im above a bit, when he comes wom drunk. s.Stf. For the laist mistak’ her'll goo on at yer for an hour, Pinnock Blk. Cy. Ann. (1895). Not. He's allas agwain on at me (L.C.M.). s.Not. She's always going on at me about something (J.P.K.). Nhp.2 He's allas a gwain on at me. War.2 Don't go on at the chap so; War.4 s.War.1 They do go on at me wonderful because I go to Church. Glo.1 Oxf.1 Uurz au·lus ugwai·n an ut uuy [Er's aulus agwain an at I]. Brks.1 If 'e goes on at I any moor 'e med do the job yerzelf, vor I wunt. (24, a) nw.Der.1 Addressed to horses in a team. Glo.1 Said to cart horses. Hmp.1 Wil. Britton Beauties (1825); Wil.1 (b) Wgt. Murder, murder! mither, the kirk's gaun oot, an' A'll be left here a' mi lane, Fraser Wigtown (1877) 365. [Amer. The church .. goes out at 12.30, Dial. Notes (1896) I. 59.] (c) Oxf.1 The bell went out for old Master Higgins last night, MS. add. Sur.1 The church bell went out for somebody to-day. (d) s.Not. I don't think of going out this year, except p'raps to Skegness for a week-end (J.P.K.). Hmp. (H.C.M.B.) (e) Sc. I thought my best chance for payment was e'en to gae out mysell, Scott Waverley (1814) xxxix; He gaed out in the Forty-five (Jam.). (25, a) Sh.I. Shüs no sae cliver settin' dem [her teeth] inta da mice, an' da hoos gaun ower wi' dem, Sh. News (July 2, 1898); Nor da kail howed dat's gaen ower wi' shickenwirt rumshick, an' melda, Stewart Fireside Tales (1892) 42. (b) n.Sc. That gaes ower me (Jam.). (c) Ir. I'd as soon go over, Carleton_ Traits Peas. (ed. 1843) 367. (26) Sc. He gaed through his discourse (Jam.).; He gaed through a' his gear (JAM.). Frf. The showman gaed through't, an' when a' thing was gane, As a beggar he tried to mak' use o' the wean, Watt Poet. Sketches (1880) 81. (27, a) Ken.1 Ken.2 (b) s.Not. She was crying and going to all the while (J.P.K.). (28) Sc. We are but young, ye ken, And now we're gaun the gither, Ritson Sc. Sngs. (1794) I. 203 (Jam.) (s.v. Gang). Sh.I. I truly wid laek ta see dem gaain tagedder, Burgess Sketches (2nd ed.) 31. Lnk. 'Tis certain that Janet took up wi' a jo,.. hows'ever they gaed na thegither, Watson Poems (1853) 31. (29) Yks. (J.W.) Lan.1 Si tha, aw would no' go-under it again, not for fifty pound. Sus.1 The doctor says he must go to the hospital and go under an operation. Dev.3 Her broked her leg and is gwaine under a' operation bimbye. (30) Nrf. ‘When does your master begin harvest?’ ‘Wall, Sir, we go up to harvest, I believe, next Friday’ (W.P.E.). (31, a) Sh.I. I geed wi' her twa winters, Burgess Sketches (2nd ed.) 128. w.Yks. I wor reckonin' to ‘go’ with another, Cudworth Dial. Sketches (1884) 2; w.Yks.2 s.Stf. John do' goo wi' Nance Brown now, Pinnock Blk. Cy. Ann. (1895). s.Not. Our Sal goes wi' Draper's Bob now (J.P.K.). Oxf.1 MS. add. Dor.1 He da goo wi Polly Hine. (b) Lnk., Lth. The weans are gaun wi' the grosets [gooseberries]. The sheep hae gane wi' the turnips (Jam., s.v. Gang). Slk. They had amaist gane wi' a' the gairs i' our north grain, Hogg Brownie of Bodsbeck I. 37 (Jam.). Rxb. (Jam.) Nhb.1 The frost's gyen wiv aall the grozers this eer. His fethor left plenty but he's gyen wid aall. (c) Sc. (Jam.) (d) Wtf. (G.M.H.) 4. Phr. (1) Go a bit off it, to become insane, go out of one's mind; (2) Go agatewards, to accompany a friend part of the way home, or on a journey; (3) Go a makin', pitchin', puttin', &c., to be made, pitched, put, &c.; (4) Go a score, to run up a score or an account; (5) Go about the bush, to beat about the bush, be bashful, backward; (6) Go and come, to fade and recover; (7) Go around land or round land, to die; (8) Go at Breek, to go to make cheese, break the milk; (9) Go back in milk, of a cow: to cease to yield or to lessen the quantity of milk; (10) Go bail, to wager, warrant; (11) Go by (the) ground, a dwarf, person of very low stature; also used attrib.; (12) Go by the wall, a creeping, slow, helpless kind of person; (13) Go by (the) water, to get one's living on the sea or water; (14) Go dead, see (7); (15) Go for to do (say, send) anything, to presume, venture to do anything, to intend, set about doing anything; (16) Go ends wi' you, go along with you, go away; (17) Go from meat, to lose one's appetite, go off one's food; (18) Go from one's word, to break faith; (19) Go giddy, to go into a passion; (20) Go home, see (7); (21) Go i' twa, to break over, to snap, divide into two pieces; (22) Go lie or to lie, (a) of corn or grass: to be beaten down by wind or rain; (b) of the wind: to subside; (c) to go to bed; (23) Go like a thacker, to set to work in good earnest; (24) Go min, to betake oneself; (25) Go off it, see (1); (26) Go off the box, to cease to take benefit money from a club; (27) Go on a stick, to walk with the help of a stick; (28) Go on the box, to take benefit money from a club; (29) Go on the strap, to go on credit, not to pay ready money; (30) Go one's gait, (31) Go one's way(s, to depart, go away, go about one's business; (32) Go out foreign, to go abroad, go on a foreign voyage; (33) Go out of doors, to become a thing of the past, fall into disuse; (34) Go right, to go to heaven; (35) Go round one's hat, (36) Go round Robin Hood's barn, to go out of the way, in a roundabout direction; (37) Go scat, to stop working; (38) Go the country, to act as pedlar or hawker; (39) Go the or a grey gate, to go astray, go to the bad; to be wasted, squandered; see Grey, 3; (40) Go the rig(s, to behave recklessly, boisterously; to make a disturbance; to do anything with great speed or energy; (41) Go the rounds, to go from one farm to another to work for wages of which some proportion is paid by the guardians; obs.; (42) Go the wrong way, of cattle: to waste away and die; (43) Go through-land, a spendthrift; (44) Go through the earth, to be overcome with sorrow and shame; (45) Go to-bed-at-noon, the common goat's-beard, Tragopogon pratensis; (46) Go to bed Tom, a refrain to the regular beat of a kettledrum or pair of ‘bones’; (47) Go to do (something), to intend, set about; to be made, designed, able to do something; (48) Go to ground, to void excrement; (49) Go to it or to't, to go to do it; (50) Go to prayer, to pray; (51) Go to the bent, to abscond; (52) Go to the gate, to set out on a journey; (53) Go to Yorkshire, to each pay one's share of the reckoning; (54) Go up Johnson's end, to become very poor; (55) Go up the gate, to die, go to ruin; (56) Go up the wooden hill, to go to bed; (57) Go upon the beach, to cure the fish brought in by the fishing-boats; (58) Go with horses, to be a carter or wagoner, to have to do with horses; (59) about to go, to turn about and set off again immediately on arrival somewhere; (60) away to go, to set off; (61) back, down, in, on, out, &c., to go, to go back, down, in, on, out, &c., with the idea of prompt, energetic action; (62) go-come-flight, (a) a cuckoo; (b) an occasional visitor. (1) Wm. Folk olaz said 'et Lanty Sha Hed gean a lile bit off it, Wilson Why Mappen, 111. Yks. (J.W.) (2) w.Yks. (S.K.C.) (3) I.Ma. An evil sperrit had stole a body that was goin a makin for a pious pessin, Brown Doctor (1891) 192; Goin a pitchin on the floor, BROWN Doctor 63; Goin a puttin to the door, and collared by the police, BROWN Doctor 41. (4) Lon. Mayhew Lond. Labour (ed. 1861) III. 277. (5) Ant. A'll no go aboot the bush tae tell it tae him, Ballymena Obs. (1892). (6) Hrt. A thetch [vetch] will go and come, Ellis Mod. Husb. (1750) II. ii. (7) Cor.1 They don't care how soon he goes around land; Cor.2; Cor.3 Gone round land. (8) n.Lan.1 (9) Ayr. The kye, who are such timorous creatures, may go back in their milk with fear, Johnston Glenbuckie (1889) 138. (10) Abd. That he's mair than a hunner, I'm safe to gae bail, Anderson Rhymes (1867) 132. Ir. But it's more than the years, I'll go bail, did be dhrivin' the ould master down hill, Barlow Bogland (1892) 15, ed. 1893. n.Cy. (J.W.) (11) War.2, e.An.1, Cor.2 [Grose (1790) MS. add. (P.)] (12) Lan.1 Neaw then, owd go-by-the-wall, shift eawt o' th' road. (13) e.An.1 My son go by water; e.An.2 A waterman is described as one who ‘goes by the water.’ [Amer. Dial. Notes (1896) I. 331.] (14) Yks. (J.W.) Lan. That quack doctor hez gooan deod, Ferguson Moudywarp's Visit 6. Chs.1 Owd Sammul's gone djed at last. w.Wor. S. Beauchamp Grantley Grange (1874) II. 51. s.Wor. (H.K.); s.Wor.1 As a plant or tree. Hrf.2 Glo. (A.B.); Glo.1 He's been gone dead these years. e.An.2 n.Dev. The sooner the old fox had gone dead the better for he, Chanter Witch (1896) 3. s.Dev. Her's gone dead (F.W.C.). Cor.1 He's gone dead three years since; Cor.2 Cor.3 [Amer. Gone dead lately, Dial. Notes (1896) I.417.] (15) Yks. (J.W.) Lan. O' course I wouldn't go for to say sich a thing o' th' squire, Francis Daughter of Soil (1895) 29. Glo. Garge, don't 'ee go fur to lift yer arm up, to-day, Buckman Darke's Sojourn (1890) xii. Dor. Zure thee'd never goo vor to zend my Ben away vrom I down to th' House Hare Vill. Street (1895) 323. w.Som.1 I be safe he never did'n go vor to do it. Used only in a negative construction. nw.Dev.1 (16) n.Lin.1 (17) Rnf. The callant's fairly gane frae meat; He canna sleep at nicht, Barr Poems (1861) 16. (18) Brks.1 (19) Chs.1 (20) w.Yks. Shoo's goan hoam, poor thing, Banks Wkfld. Wds. (1865). Sur.1 That old tree is going home very fast. n.Dev. Her wanted to see the old Miss Fishley too, as she was fast going home, Chanter Witch (1896) vi. (21) Sc. (Jam.) (22, a) Som. W. & J. Gl. (1873). w.Som.1 Dhik·ee vee·ul u wai·t-s au·l u-goo-luy· [That field of wheat is all laid flat]. Dev.1 By the time us a-do, the weend was a-go lie, 19; Dev.2 Dev.3, nw.Dev.1 Cor.2 Gone to lie. [Nor does the drilled corn in such stiff ground as mine is, go lie so readily as the broadcast, Young Annals Agric. (1784-1815) XXIII. 315.] (b) Som. W. & J. Gl. (1873). w.Som.1 Dhu wee·n-z u-goo-luy· [The wind has gone down]. (c) Wgt. Are ye gain a ga lie? I gaed lie (W.G.). (23) Lei.1, War.3 (24) Dev. Wen tha chaps veels inclin'd vur ta git a yung humman, If shude be pin a Zindy, ta Vaur-strait they go min, Nathan Hogg Poet. Lett. (1847) 15, ed. 1865. (25) n.Cy. (J.W.) s.Stf. To hear him, yo'd think he'd gone off it, Pinnock Blk. Cy. Ann. (1895). (26) s.Wor. A shall goo off the box nex’ wik (H.K.). Oxf. (G.O.) (27) N.I.1 (28) s.Wor. (H.K.), Oxf. (G.O.) (29) w.Yks. If he goas on th' strap, an' happens to be a munth behund [in payments], he's foorced to stand o' one side till ivery body else gets sarved, Hartley Ditt. 106; They'll gooa ta t'Cooa-op when they've t'brass, but when they've ta gooa on t'strap they'll find a shop off o' t'Cooa-op (B.K.). (30) Sc. (Jam.) Ayr. Then gae your gate, ye'se nae be here, Burns Wha is that at my Bower Door, st. 1. (31) Sc. He gaed his wa's very peaceably (Jam.). w.Yks. Just gooa the way to Bakewell. Go thi ways in, Shevvild Ann. (1854) 1; w.Yks.1 Gea thy ways; w.Yks.5 Go your way. I went my way. Chs.1 ‘Go thy ways,’ common when bidding a person to be gone; used in a kindly manner. n.Lin.1 Shr.1 Chiefly addressed to children when bidding them begone in a good-humoured kind of way. Cor. Go thee ways t'ome (M.A.C.). (32) n.Yks. Mother said I might come an' say ‘Good-bye’ as I was gooin' oot foreign, Linskill Betw. Heather and N. Sea (1884) xxix. (33) Ken. I never thought as I should have lived to see poor old David gone out of doors, N. & Q. (1882) 6th S. vi. 393. Sur. Farming seems to have gone out of doors. Those old red oats have gone out of doors nowadays, N. & Q. 205. Sus. N. & Q. 393. (34) Oxf.1 I knowed 'e went right, far a says t'I, a says, ‘I 'a sin a angel.’ (35) Dev. Coachman had a road to a certain place described to him. ‘Why, that's going all round my hat,’ Reports Provinc. (1889). (36) Reports Provinc. (37) Cor. I baant so fullish as to marry a sumpman ef the bal es going scat, Longman's Mag. (Feb. 1893) 377. (38) Lnk. There's auld Tam Glen, guid worthy man!.. The country's gaen... For mair than half a cent'ry, Watt Poems (1827) 67. (39) Ir. Only for it that couple's poor orphans wouldn't be left without father or mother as they were; no poor Hurrish go the grey gate he did, Carleton Traits Peas. (ed. 1843) I. 104. Ant. ‘His money will go a grey gate.’ ‘He will go a grey gate in a misty morning.’ The saying is rather falling into disuse (W.J.K.). (40) n.Yks. Miss ─ is goin the rigs wi t'lass [was scolding, grumbling at the lass]. Noo that hoss iz goin the rigs (W.H.). w.Yks. Banks Wkfld. Wds. (1865). e.Lan.1 (41) Bdf. The increase of population has caused a deficiency of employment, which is so remarkable in some seasons that a great proportion of the labourers ‘go the rounds,’ Marshall Review (1814) IV. 590. (42) w.Som.1 A peculiar season or insufficient food often causes a chronic state of diarrhœa under which the animal wastes away and dies. This is what is perfectly well understood as going the wrong way. ‘I don't like the look o' thick yeffer, 'tis much to me nif her don't go the wrong way.’ (43) n.Sc. Would I forsake my ain true lord And follow you, a gae-through-land? Buchan Ballads (1828) I. 44, ed. 1875. (44) w.Sc. Betty was like to gae through the yirth about it, Carrick Laird of Logan (1835) 133. (45) N.Cy.1, Nhb.1 Midl. Poetry Provinc. in Cornh. Mag. (1865) XII. 34. War.3, e.An.1 (46) Nhb.1 (47) s.Stf. He's gooin' to come next wik, Pinnock Blk. Cy. Ann. (1895). Nrf. Dew that there thing go to come off? (W.R.E.) Suf.1 A knife, &c. ‘don't go to open’ [is not made to open]. Don't go to eat [inedible]. w.Som.1 Please, sir, I drow'd the stone, but plase, sir, I didn go to tear the winder. nw.Dev.1 Used negatively. [Amer. I didn't go to do it, Carruth Kan. Univ. Quar. (Oct. 1892).] (48) Hrf. N. & Q. (1856) 2nd S. i. 86. (49) Ken.1; Ken.2 ‘Do this or that.’ ‘I am going to't.’ Often used still, but pronounced ‘to it’ in full. (50) Nrf. When visiting a sick man, I have been often asked if I will go to prayer with him (W.R.E.). (51) Sc. (Jam.) (52) Abd. Now by the time that they a piece had ta'en, All in a brattle to the gate are gane, Ross Helenore (1768) 105, ed. 1812. (53) Yks. Flk-Lore Rec. (1878) 175. (54) Wor. N. & Q. (1860) 2nd S. x. 249. (55) Cld. (Jam.) (56) Oxf.1 MS. add. (57) Sh.I. ‘I mind,’ I said, ‘whin I gude first apo' da beach... ta cüre da fish 'at da sixerns came ashore wi',’ Sh. News (Nov. 5, 1898). (58) Ken. He's not a workman, he goes with horses (D.W.L.). (59) Dev. ‘They go to X----, and about to go.’ The visitors no sooner arrive than they turn about and are off again, Reports Provinc. (1897). (60) Reports Provinc. (61) In giving a lad a mount, or ‘a leg up’: ‘Now, then, up to go!’ Reports Provinc. (62) e.Suf. (F.H.) 5. To go to, proceed in the direction of. n.Yks. If he can but dree, I saw him [?] yeaud up th' town, Meriton Praise Ale (1684) l. 367. Rut.1 They hev to go Uppin-g'am for everything a'moost. Lei.1 ‘Are yew a-gooin' Le'ster?’ ‘A goos Hinckley Tuesdays.’ War.3 6. To walk, move on one's feet. Wm. An seä prood that yu hardly can gä, Wilson Old Man's Talk, 85. Yks. (J.W.) sw.Lin.1 It's time he should begin to go. He can't go yet, but he creeps about anywhere. w.Som.1 A very com. proverb is: ‘A cheel that can tell avore he can go, 'll sure t' ha nort but zorrow and wo.’ Th' old man can't go 'thout two sticks. I can go middlin like, on'y I baint very vast 'pon my veet like. 7. To get about and do one's work. Ken.1 ‘He's troubled to go.’ ‘He's gone in great misery for some time.’ 8. To ride, run away; to move rapidly. s.Stf. Dai' we just goo acomin' back! Pinnock Blk. Cy. Ann. (1895). e.An.1 9. Of animals: to graze, go seeking food. Sh.I. I wis up luikin fir a grey yow o' wirse 'at guid aboot Hjoganeep, Sh. News (May 20, 1899). Gall. (A.W.) 10. To die, gen. in phr. to be gone. Lnk. O wha kames the laddie's hair, noo his mither's gane? Stewart Twa Elders (1886) 128. Wgt. ‘He's gone, my lord.’ ‘Gone! where has he gone to?’ ‘I don't know, he's dead,’ Fraser Wigtown (1877) 287. Yks. (J.W.), nw.Der.1 n.Lin.1 She was gooin' all neet, an' she went just as th' sun begun to shine into th' room winda'. w.Som.1 Poor blid, her time ont be long, but there, her's ready vor to go. Poor old maister's a go to last. Hence Goner, sb. a dead man, one who is dead or dying. Midl. Oh,.. doan't saay he's a goner, Bartram People of Clopton (1897) 64. 11. Of a clock: to strike the hour. n.Cy. (J.W.) Nhb. It's gone twelve. Oh, if I nobbut kent where he was! s.Tynedale Stud. (1896) Robbie Armstrong. n.Stf. It's gone half arter one a'ready, Geo. Eliot A. Bede (1859) xviii. Lei.1 It meks sooch a huzzin an' a buzzin' when it's a-gooin' to goo. It's just gone seven on 'em. War.3 Suf. Have the clock gone twelve yet? (M.E.R.); That ha' goon nine, e.An. Dy. Times (1892). Sur.1 It's jest gone four by the church clock. Hence Gone one, two, &c., o'clock, phr. having just struck, a few minutes past one, two, &c. Cum. Apparently on her way home ‘gone ten o'clock,’ Carlisle Patriot (June 14, 1889) 5. 12. Of a wound or sore: to discharge, suppurate. w.Som.1 Her've a-got a tumour gwain from her sittin. 13. sb. In comb. (1) Go of the year, the latter part of the year when the days are short. Sc. (Jam.); (2) Go of water, as much water as can be carried at one time, two pailfuls. N.I.1 s.Don. Simmonds Gl. (1890). Cf. gang, sb. 10. 14. Phr. (1) in go, (2) on the go, in vogue, in fashion, popular; (3) to be upon go, (a) of persons: to stir about, make a fuss; (b) of things: to be much in use; (4) to cry a go, to have no more to do with any affair. (1) w.Yks. It's aboon thirty year sin' coil-skep bonnets wor i' go (S.K.C.). (2) n.Lin.1 Peram'laators is all on th' goä noo; ther' wasn't sich an a thing when I was a little lass. Cath'lics is on th' goä noo; we ewsed to reckon 'em as bad as Aatheists. (3 a, b) Abd. (Jam.) (4) Midl. Else I croy a go, Bartram People of Clopton (1897) 232. 15. An attempt, effort, esp. in phr. at a go, in two goes, &c. n.Cy. (J.W.) s.Not. I cut through it at a go. You can't do it in two goes (J.P.K.). 16. Distress, sorrow, anxiety or excitement; esp. in phr. to be in a go at or about something. Cai.1 A great go. In an unco go aboot something. Bnff.1 She wiz in an unco go at hir sin's wa-gaan. The hail queentry side wiz in a great go fin it wiz kent the auld minister's sin wiz t'get the kirk. Cld. (Jam.) 17. A drunken frolic, ‘spree,’ esp. in phr. to be o' the go. Cai.1 Bnff.1 He cam in the day unco thirsty-like; a kent he wiz o' the go. Cld. (Jam.)

GO, GOO, GOO, see Good, Gow, sb.1

GO, v. and sb. Var. dial. uses in Sc. Irel. and Eng. I. v. Gram. forms. 1. Preterite: pl. Wenten. s.Lan.1, Shr.1 (s.v. On). 2. Pp. (1) Goned, (2) Went, (3) Wenten. (1) s.Pem. (M.S.C.) (2) Ir. Francey's went off somewheres wid his gun, Barlow Martin's Comp. (1896) 83. n.Lin.1, Hrf.2 s.Pem. ‘He have went’ is considered ‘elegant’ for ‘He has gone,’ but is not used with a neg. (M.S.C.) Glo.1 Dor. Windsor Mag. (Mar. 1900) 413. w.Som.1 Dev. Reports Provinc. (Aug. 1902) No. 18. (3) Nhb.1 Still in constant use.‘ He should he' wenten hissel.’ II. Dial. meanings. 1. v. In phr. (1) to go again, to reappear after death; (2) go against, to go to meet; (3) go in, of the hour: to approach, draw near; (4) go on to, to scold; (5) go round land, (6) go to oneself, to die; (7) go away back! or go away by! a drover's call to his sheep; (8) go round them! an order to a dog to collect together a flock of sheep; (9) go set! an exclamation of contempt. (1) n.Dev. How hes Vauther went agen, in shape of a gurt voul theng, Exm. Crtshp. (1746) l. 438. (2) s.Pem. How [why] didn't you go against Liz? (M.S.C.) (3) n.Yks. (I.W.) (4) Shr.1 Dunna gŏŏ on to the child, 'er couldna 'elp it. They wenten on to the young 'ooman shameful (s.v. On). (5) Cor. He went round land at las', an' was found dead in his bed, ‘Q.’ Troy Town (1893) 132. (6) Sh.I. (J.S.) (7) Lakel.2 (8) se.Lin. (J.T.B.) (9) Nhb. Graham Red Scaur (1896) 149. 2. Comp. (1) Go-between, a servant who does part of the work of a housemaid and part of that of a cook; (2) Go-bout, a vagabond, tramp; also used attrib. (1) Sc. N. & Q. (1888) 7th S. vii. 37. (2) Cor. Fightin' over me like two tinklers over a go-'bout woman! Lee Paul Carah (1898) 141. 3. To indicate time, as a clock or watch. s.Dev. Spoken not only of indication by striking, but by dial at any period of the hour (W.C.P.). 4. Obs. To pass, distance. Wxf.1 Th' ball want a cowlee, 88. 5. With with: to become of, happen to. War.3 What went with his son? 6. sb. As much as one can carry at one time. Don. Fetch in a couple of goes of brasna, Macmanus O'Friel's (1903) 18. 7. Phr. (1) the go, a stir, commotion, bustle; (2) to be upon the full go, to move about in a bustling, stirring way. (1) I.Ma. The go that was in the house over the wedding you wouldn' believe (S.M.). (2) se.Lin. (J.T.B.)