[Ads-l] While reading recently an article on-line...

[imwitty]

I stumbled upon a new – not just for me – word among 3,000 plus comments.
Here's the exact excerpt:


*Commenter A: *This corrupt dictatorship will do anything to get votes for
themselves. Anything, including putting American lives at risk. Lord help
me, I detest [*name*] and all of his *gherys.*

*Commenter B: *I don't know what a *ghery* is, but I agree about detesting [
*name*].

*Commenter A: *Well, the term is rather archaic by now. It means basically
-- *a paid thug*, *a yes-man*, *a goon*, *a gorilla*, *a henchman*.


I tried to find that word in many dictionaries, including OED, slang, etc.,
etc., with ZERO results. Is it familiar to anybody?


L.
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