Paddy's Goose

English Proper noun Paddy's Goose en UK slang obsolete The White Swan, a celebrated public house in Ratcliff Highway, east London, England. en 1870 Daniel Joseph Kirwan Palace and Hovel, Or, Phases of London Life 633 "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, en 1890 Francis Edward Smiley The Evangelization of a Great City 209 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, References en 1873 John Camden Hotten The Slang Dictionary St George-in-the-East Church's history page on Ratcliff(e) Highway