Brewer's: Goose Dubbs

of Glasgow. A sort of Seven Dials, or Scottish Alsatia. The Scotch use dubbs for a filthy puddle. (Welsh, dwb, mortar; Irish, doib, plaster.)

“The Guse-dubs o' Glasgow: O sirs, what a huddle o' houses, ... the green middens o' baith liquid and solid matter, soomin' wi' dead cats and auld shoon.” —Noctes Ambrosianae.

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