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goer
English
Etymology
From Middle English goere, equivalent to go +? -er. Compare German Geher (“goer, walker”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /??o??/
- Rhymes: -???(r)
Noun
goer (plural goers)
- One who, or that which, goes.
- c. 1602, William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well, Act I, Scene 2,[1]
- Such a man
- Might be a copy to these younger times;
- Which, follow’d well, would demonstrate them now
- But goers backward.
- 1845, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Letter to Hannah Macaulay dated 19 December, 1845 in G. Otto Trevelyan (ed.), The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, New York: Harper, 1875, Volume 2, p. 149,[2]
- Lord John has been all day in his inner library. His antechamber has been filled with comers and goers, some talking in knots, some writing notes at tables.
- 1927, Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, London: The Hogarth Press, 1930, Part 1, p. 58,[3]
- […] the two classes of men; on the one hand the steady goers of superhuman strength […] plodding and persevering, […] ; on the other the gifted, the inspired […]
- c. 1602, William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well, Act I, Scene 2,[1]
- Anything, especially a machine such as a motor car, that performs well, or operates successfully.
- I bought her secondhand, but she's a good little goer.
- (Britain, slang) A person, often a woman, who enjoys sexual activity.
- 1990, Hampton Charles, Advantage Miss Seeton,[4] page 45,
- He winked at Parsons. "If I'm any judge, she must've bin a right little goer in 'er day."
- 2001, Peter Buse, Drama + Theory: Critical Approaches to Modern British Drama,[5] page 102,
- ' […] (Intimate, man to man) Eh, I bet she's a goer, int she sunshine? She's got a fair pair of knockers on her too.'
- 2001, Edna Walsh, Bedbound and Misterman,[6] ?ISBN, page 22,
- 'I can tell that yer a right little goer, hey Larsie?!' I call over two slappers and slip them a few hundred! Before I know it me and Lars and the two slappers are rolling around a giant bed with the hungriest genitals in Gay Paree!
- 1990, Hampton Charles, Advantage Miss Seeton,[4] page 45,
- (obsolete) A foot (body part).
- c. 1615, George Chapman (translator), Homer’s Odysses, London: Nathaniell Butter, Book 13, p. 202,[7]
- […] a double Mantle cast
- A’ thwart his Shoulders, his faire goers g[r]ac’st
- With fitted shooes; and in his hand, a Dart
- c. 1615, George Chapman (translator), Homer’s Odysses, London: Nathaniell Butter, Book 13, p. 202,[7]
- (dated) A horse, considered in reference to its gait.
- 1727, Daniel Defoe, A Tour thro’ the Whole Island of Great Britain, London: J. Osborn et al., 1742, Volume 4, Letter 3, p. 106,[8]
- These Horses, which are very much bought up in England, are remarkable for being good natural Pacers, strong, easy Goers, hardy, gentle, well-broken, and, above all, not apt to tire.
- 1914, James Joyce, “The Dead” in Dubliners,
- “I'd like nothing better this minute,” said Mr Browne stoutly, “than a rattling fine walk in the country or a fast drive with a good spanking goer between the shafts.”
- 1727, Daniel Defoe, A Tour thro’ the Whole Island of Great Britain, London: J. Osborn et al., 1742, Volume 4, Letter 3, p. 106,[8]
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- Geor., Gero, Gore, Ogre, Rego, ergo, ergo-, gero-, gore, ogre, orge, rego, roge
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goel
English
Etymology 1
Compare yellow.
Adjective
goel (comparative goeler, superlative goelest)
- (obsolete) yellow
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Hebrew ??????? (goél, “he redeems”)
Noun
goel (plural goels or goelim)
- (historical, biblical) A person who, as the nearest relative of another, has certain obligations toward them, such as having to free them from slavery, to repurchase their property if sold through poverty, and to avenge their murder.
Anagrams
- LEGO, Lego, Loge, Ogle, lego, loge, ogle
Welsh
Noun
goel
- Soft mutation of coel.
Mutation
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