What is Golly-wifter?
1.
Deprecatory Adjective: Someone who is Left-Handed.
Used in North Lincolnshire & East Yorkshire.
Pre-circa.1900AD.
Thought to be Old English.
" As he lost his right arm in the war he's had no other choice but to become a golly-wifter.
2.
Someone Who is Left-Handed;
Used Before 1900 AD, in Lincolnshire & East Yorkshire.
Thought to be from an either Norse, or Old English Root.
" He lost his right arm in a war, so he had to become a Golly-Wifter "
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