Usually means: A gilderoy is a boastful, unreliable person.
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  1. Gilderoy: Wordnik
  2. Gilderoy (Outlaw), Gilderoy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  3. gilderoy: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  4. Gilderoy, Gilderoy: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Definitions from Wikipedia (Gilderoy)

noun:  Patrick McGregor (d. 1636), better known as Gilderoy, was a Scottish outlaw and mass murderer who engaged in cattle raiding, blackmail and extortion in the regions of Strathspey, Braemar, Cromarty and other areas near Aberdeen during the Stuart period.


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