different between goog vs goos

English

Etymology

Irish and Scottish Gaelic gog/gug, cf. googie, from Irish and Scottish Gaelic gugaí/gogaí "sound made by chickens, baby name for chicken, baby name for egg" (i.e. gug-gug-gugaí)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?u??/, /???/

Noun

goog (plural googs)

1. (Australia, slang) An egg.
   • 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber & Faber 2003, p. 53:

     I always supposed he was called Goog because the tiny flattened ears did nothing to interrupt the goog-like sweep from crown to jaw.

   • 2016, J. D. Barrett, The Secret Recipe for Second Chances

     From its modest beginnings in one's diet as a boiled goog with toast soldiers, to the heady heights of the soufflé, the egg is the soul of French and English cuisine.

Derived terms

• full as a goog

References

• goog, entry in 1984, Eric Partridge, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, 2008, page 299.

Anagrams

• go-go, gogo

Manx

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

goog f (genitive singular goog, plural googyn)

1. toy

Synonyms

• didee
• gaih

Mutation

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u?z/

Noun

goos

1. plural of goo

Verb

goos

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of goo

Cornish

Alternative forms

• goes

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *waytos, probably ultimately from the root of gwythi (“veins”), see that entry for cognates. Cognate with Breton gwad and Welsh gwaed.

Pronunciation

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [??o?z]
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [??u?z]

Noun

goos m (plural gosow)

1. blood
2. bloodline

Mutation

References

Middle English

Alternative forms

• gosse, goce, gos, gose

Etymology

From Old English g?s

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o?s/

Noun

goos (plural gese or gece)

1. goose (especially a female one)
2. The meat or corpse of a goose; a dead goose.
3. A fool or idiot.

Related terms

• goselyng
• goshauk
• gossomer

Descendants

• English: goose
• Scots: guse

Somali

Noun

goos ?

1. The act of biting