What is "gussie"

Usage examples of "gussie".

And in opening my report of the complex case of Gussie Fink-Nottle, Madeline Bassett, my Cousin Angela, my Aunt Dahlia, my Uncle Thomas, young Tuppy Glossop and the cook, Anatole, with the above spot of dialogue, I see that I have made the second of these two floaters.

Conceding the fact that Gussie Fink-Nottle, against all the ruling of the form book, might have fallen in love, why should he have been haunting my flat like this?

Elizabeth Moon, so it was not to be wondered at that he should have advised Gussie to apply.

A closer scrutiny informed me that it was Gussie Fink-Nottle, dressed as Mephistopheles.

I mixed myself a beaker, while Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.

There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.

And giving me the sort of weak smile Roman gladiators used to give the Emperor before entering the arena, Gussie trickled off.

All that Gussie needs is the elder-brotherly advice of a seasoned man of the world.

We shot Gussie into a cab and he started forth, headed for wherever this fancy-dress ball was.

It is all very well to try to do old school friends a spot of good, but I could not but feel that in enspousig the cause of a lunkhead capable of mucking things up as Gussie had done, I had taken on a contract almost too big for human consumption.

It seemed to me that what Gussie needed was not so much the advice of a seasoned man of the world as a padded cell in Colney Hatch and a couple of good keepers to see that he did not set the place on fire.

At the moment, as you are aware, Gussie is a mere jelly when in the presence.

No, Gussie will have to toe the line, and I shall be saved from a job at which I confess the soul shuddered.

Could Gussie, unable to face the ordeal confronting him, have legged it during the night down a water-pipe?

I remembered the counsel I had given Gussie in the matter of the sausages and ham.