Gook (??) (1919)

[Jonathan Lighter]

Beats me. Context works against a misprint  of "geeks."  (They'd only need one anyway.)

Zebras?  No, there's some kind of mistake here.  Or else it's a very rare and unrecorded sense.

JL
"Douglas G. Wilson" <douglas at NB.NET> wrote:
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_Times-Democrat_ (Lima OH), 19 July 1919: p. 9:

<sawdust ring full of all those things that delight not only the childish
heart but those of their elders as well. The notices say there will be
lions, giraffes, ostriches, gooks, monkeys, elephants, and all sorts of
animals.>>

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It surely does say "gooks". What does it mean?

-- Doug Wilson

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