To scold.

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1851.  The old man (the judge) will give me goss when I go back.—‘Polly Peablossom’s Wedding,’ &c., p. 99. (Italics in the original.)

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1852.  Cuss me if I didn’t give him pertiklar goss, for I b’lieve he’s got nigger blood in him.—James Weir, ‘Simon Kenton,’ p. 166 (Phila.).

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