different between goog vs grog

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

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Noun

goog f (genitive singular goog, plural googyn)

1. toy

Synonyms

• didee
• gaih

Mutation

English

Etymology

An allusion to Admiral Edward Vernon (nicknamed “Old Grog” after the grogram coat he habitually wore), who in 1740 ordered his sailors' rum to be watered down.

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Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /????/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

grog (countable and uncountable, plural grogs)

1. (original meaning) An alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors of the Royal Navy.
2. (by extension, Australia, New Zealand) Any alcoholic beverage.
3. (countable, Australia, New Zealand) A glass or serving of an alcoholic beverage.
4. An alcoholic beverage made with hot water or tea, sugar and rum, sometimes also with lemon or lime juice and spices, particularly cinnamon.
5. (ceramics) A type of pre-fired clay that has been ground and screened to a specific particle size.

   Synonyms: chamotte, firesand

Derived terms

• groggery
• groggy
• grogshop

Descendants

• ? Portuguese: grogue

Translations

Further reading

• grog on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Anagrams

• gorg

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????/

Noun

grog m (plural grogs)

1. grog (drink made from rum)

Further reading

• “grog” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Romanian

Etymology

From French grog.

Noun

grog n (plural groguri)

1. grog

Declension

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ro??/

Adjective

grog

1. Soft mutation of crog.

Mutation