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GALINGALE :  noun  an East Indian aromatic root with medicinal and culinary applications. See PATIBULARY

GAMBOGE :  noun  a bright yellow pigment. See also ANORECTIC

. . . a sumptuous sky of mauve and gamboge and smashed eggs. . . .

--Burgess, Earthly Powers, pp. 206.

GLANDES, GLANS :  noun  literally, "acorn"; the head of the human penis

And in acorns in their involucra† he saw glandes malic† and red.

--Davenport, "The Dawn in Erewhon,"
Tatlin!, p. 205.

GLOCKAMOID :  adj  shaped like an arrow point. Compare HASTATE. See PATIBULARY

GORP :  noun  See quotation. Compare DRUGGEL

. . . gorp, a freakishly obese person who eats constantly because he achieves a kind of erotic spendor when sitting on the throne.

--Exley, A Fan's Notes, p. 300.

GRANFALLOON :  noun  See quotation. See also DUPRASS.

Hazel's obsession with Hoosiers around the world was a textbook example of a false karass†, of a seeming team that was meaningless in terms of the ways God gets things done, a textbook example of what Bokonon calls a granfalloon.

--Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle, pp. 81-82.

GROUTNOLL, GRUTNOLL :  noun  someone whose head is filled with grout, hence a "blockhead." See LOOBY

GURN, GIRN :  verb  to snarl, to show the teeth in anger. Compare RINGENT

". . . you haven't brought down many rockets lately have you, haha!" gurning his most spiteful pursed smile up aginst wrinkled nose and eyes. . . . malic† and red.

--Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, p. 38.

GURRY :  adj  relating to fish guts, fish oil, some slimy substance

. . . warm in the gurry odors of sex, the grassy sweet of hair, the fodderish smell of crotches, and the winey buckreek of armpits. . . .

--Davenport, "On Some Lines of Virgil,"
Eclogues, p. 203.

GYNAIKOPOINARIAN :  adj  woman-punishing

. . . I shall kick open the gates--stand aside!--and loose the gynaikopoinarian dogs, for a woman always respects a word she cannot spell.

--Theroux, Darconville's Cat, p. 551.

GYNOTIKOLOBOMASSOPHILE :  noun  someone who loves to fondle (usually, nibble) women's earlobes

EARS:      A gynotikolobomassophile's delight.

--Theroux, Darconville's Cat, p. 105.