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Paddy's Goose

Paddy's Goose proper noun: the White Swan, a celebrated public house in Ratcliff Highway, east London, England.

Proper noun

Paddy's Goose

  1. (UK, obsolete, slang) The White Swan, a celebrated public house in Ratcliff Highway, east London, England.
    • "Paddy's Goose," or the "White Swan," as it is called by its owner, is perhaps the most frightful hell-hole in London. The very sublimity of vice and degradation is here attained, […]1870, Daniel Joseph Kirwan, Palace and Hovel, Or, Phases of London Life, page 633
    • To-day the White Swan, better known as Paddy's Goose, once one of the vilest dance-houses in Ratcliff Highway, is to be opened as a Mission Hall by the Wesleyan Methodist Home Mission, […]1890, Francis Edward Smiley, The Evangelization of a Great City, page 209

Questions about Paddy's Goose

What does Paddy's Goose mean?
Paddy's Goose means the White Swan, a celebrated public house in Ratcliff Highway, east London, England.
What part of speech is Paddy's Goose?
Paddy's Goose is a proper noun.

Words near Paddy's Goose in the dictionary

  1. paddy waggon
  2. paddy waggons
  3. paddy wagon
  4. paddy wagons
  5. Paddy's Day
  6. Paddy's Goose
  7. Paddy's hurricane
  8. Paddy's hurricanes
  9. Paddy's Milestone
  10. paddybird
  11. paddybirds

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