Meanings
- UKobsoleteslangThe White Swan, a celebrated public house in Ratcliff Highway, east London, England.
"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, […]
1870, Daniel Joseph Kirwan, Palace and Hovel, Or, Phases of London Life, page 6331 more example
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, […]
1890, Francis Edward Smiley, The Evangelization of a Great City, page 209
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Paddy's Goose. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Paddy's%20Goose
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