different between goos vs goosh

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

English

Etymology

Imitative? The sense "gush" (at least) is related to gush. The sense "smush" may be related to smoosh.

Verb

goosh (third-person singular simple present gooshes, present participle gooshing, simple past and past participle gooshed)

1. (informal) To move in a messy, liquid manner.
   • 1990, Sandra Dengler, East of Outback (Australian Destiny Book #4), Baker Books (?ISBN)

     The ground gooshed in places, soggy from the winter rains.
2. (informal) To gush.
   • 2016, Jessi Klein, You'll Grow Out of It, Grand Central Publishing (?ISBN):

     In layman's terms, your husband/boyfriend/donor spooges into a jar and then the contents of that jar are gooshed up your puss with a turkey baster. SCIENCE!

   • 2018, Hank Phillippi Ryan, Trust Me: A Novel, Forge Books (?ISBN):

     As the coffee gooshes into a cup, I imagine that dysfunctional family dynamic.

3. (informal) To smush, to smash.
   • a. 1994, Bill Watterson, Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat, Andrews McMeel, ?ISBN, page 153

     Calvin: Here's a bug plodding resolutely across the dirt. […] If he's mocking me, I'm gonna goosh him.

   • 2010, Joe Knotts, The Green Bear Stories, Dog Ear Publishing (?ISBN), page 69:

     It was like walking on gooshed together marshmallows: a bit sticky, but doable. Have you ever gooshed marshmallows? It's kind of messy, but lots of fun. You take a few of those large marshmallows in your fingers and pull them apart and stuff them together over and over until they become one big sticky blob.

   • 2019, Stanley Bruce Carter, The Depraved Dances of Taram Zhod, Gypsy Shadow Publishing (?ISBN), page 94:

     Risu looked for the bees but they were nowhere to be found—not even a gooshed one, and surely she must've gooshed at least a few during her frantic swatting. Pesky things. A movement to the left attracted her eye.