Citations:godsip


 * 1881, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, The Ingenious Knight, Don Quixote de la Mancha, page 165:
 * Seeing that he was not to be found, said the alderman who had seen him to the other, &#39;Look ye, godsip, a plan has come into my mind by which we may '
 * 1963, Paul M. Zall, A Hundred Merry Tales: And Other English Jestbooks of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries, Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press:
 * Upon the which, the fox leaped and showed to the wolf the shadow of the moon which reluced3 in the well, and said to him: &quot;Look now, godsip,4 how "
 * 2010, Susan E. Phillips, Transforming Talk: The Problem with Gossip in Late Medieval England, Penn State Press (ISBN 9780271047393), page 161:
 * Ever the schemer, he attempted to capitalize upon the bishop of Winchester&#39;s intimacy with his &#39;&#39;godsip,&#39;&#39; the duke of Norfolk.
 * 2005, Edmund Curtis, A History of Ireland: From the Earliest Times to 1922, Routledge (ISBN 9781134466665), page 124:
 * ... being suffered and not controlled, during the government of Richard, Duke of York, his godsip and of Thomas Earl of Kildare his kinsman, ...


 * 1475, letter of John Paston to Edward IV, quoted in 1895, James Gairdner, The Paston Letters: 1422-1509 A.D. A New Ed., Containing Upwards of Four Hundred Letters, Etc., Hitherto Unpublished, page 145:
 * ... wherfor he was fayn to sue to the said Duc and lord by the meanes of his godsip the Bisshop of Wynchestre, whiche was in his special favour; at whos ...