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  • (verb) - (1) To laugh idiotically; hence, goffeny, a fool, silly person. Yorkshire.

    --Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary, 1896-1905

    (2) Goister, to laugh loudly.

    --Jabez Good's Glossary of East Lincolnshire, 1900

    January 19, 2018