Margaret Mikulska wrote:

>Robert Peters wrote:
>
>I also don't know what "Gauz" means.
>
>Could it be a dialectal variant of Kauz, a kind of owl with ear tufts
>("screech owl", genus Otus)?

Yes, absolutely.  That's it.  "Kauz" in this context here means "strange
person, oddball".

Robert Peters
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