paddy's goose
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.38 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The White Swan, a celebrated public house in Ratcliff Highway, east London, England.
British usage; Obsolete; Slang
Example Sentences
- ""Paddy's Goose," or the "White Swan," as it is called by its owner, is perhaps the most frightful hell-hole in London. The very sublimity of vice and degradation is here attained, […]"
- "To-day the White Swan, better known as Paddy's Goose, once one of the vilest dance-houses in Ratcliff Highway, is to be opened as a Mission Hall by the Wesleyan Methodist Home Mission, […]"