Meaning of Paddy's Goose | Babel Free

Definitions

The White Swan, a celebrated public house in Ratcliff Highway, east London, England.

UK, obsolete, slang

Examples

“"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, […]”

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