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  • "As it was explained to me, the term 'gorby' for a tourist comes from the nickname for the Gray Jay - the Gorby Bird."

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed 2010

  • "As it was explained to me, the term 'gorby' for a tourist comes from the nickname for the Gray Jay - the Gorby Bird."

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed 2010

  • I've got the biggest gorby of a mon, "she went on," between Mow Cop and the Cocklow o 'Leek.

    The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

  • Thus did my friend successfully assume the lineaments of a _gawk_, and the deportment of a _gorby_, that he might evade the oppressive attentions of a companion given to _gawster_.

    The Bed-Book of Happiness Harold Begbie 1900

  • Two: gorby knew communism was a failure and did not fight to keep Russia's imperialism afloat.

    Crooks and Liars 2009

  • Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, Now maybe she can convince McCain and speak loud enough about it to maybe shut-up gorby!!!!!!!!

    Latest Articles 2008

  • Gorbachev did, nevertheless, feel that Western leaders had promised him that NATO would not expand to the east, and called those who broke these promises “devoid of morality” “Mikhail Gorbachev’s Interview to the Editor-in-Chief of Aachener Zeitung,” November 22, 2008, at www.gorby.ru/en/rubrs.asp?

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Gorbachev did, nevertheless, feel that Western leaders had promised him that NATO would not expand to the east, and called those who broke these promises “devoid of morality” “Mikhail Gorbachev’s Interview to the Editor-in-Chief of Aachener Zeitung,” November 22, 2008, at www.gorby.ru/en/rubrs.asp?

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Gorbachev did, nevertheless, feel that Western leaders had promised him that NATO would not expand to the east, and called those who broke these promises “devoid of morality” “Mikhail Gorbachev’s Interview to the Editor-in-Chief of Aachener Zeitung,” November 22, 2008, at www.gorby.ru/en/rubrs.asp?

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Gorbachev did, nevertheless, feel that Western leaders had promised him that NATO would not expand to the east, and called those who broke these promises “devoid of morality” “Mikhail Gorbachev’s Interview to the Editor-in-Chief of Aachener Zeitung,” November 22, 2008, at www.gorby.ru/en/rubrs.asp?

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

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  • A raven. corby

    May 19, 2011

  • Wonder whether this came from the name of the raven genus (Corvus).

    June 1, 2011

  • No doubt, reesetee. A "g" is pretty much a "c" ("k") with a voice.

    June 1, 2011