different between goos vs goss

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

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Clipping of gossip.

Noun

goss (uncountable)

1. (slang) gossip.

   The hottest goss in celeb-land today is that Angelina Jolie is jealous of her fella's relationship with his ex-wife.

Etymology 2

See gorse.

Noun

goss (uncountable)

1. Obsolete form of gorse.
   • 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, IV. i. 180:

     through / Toothed briars, sharp furzes, pricking goss, and thorns,

Etymology 3

Noun

goss (plural gosses)

1. (slang, obsolete) A hat.
   • 1838, Actors by Daylight (volume 1, page 143)

     He now states, as one of the miseries of being tall, his frequent collision with the shop blinds projecting over the footway, which endanger his head—or what is of more consequence to him, his hat. Some malicious people, on seeing him in full chase up Regent-street after his goss. (a la Pickwick) compared his activity to a snail in full gallop, while others remarked on his affinity to a spider after a fly.

References

• 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

• GSOs, sogs

German

Pronunciation

Verb

goss

1. first/third-person singular preterite of gießen

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?s?

Noun

goss

1. indefinite genitive singular of gos

Vilamovian

Etymology

From Old High German gazza, from Proto-Germanic *gatw?. Cognate with German Gasse.

Noun

goss f (plural gossa)

1. street

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English gorst, from Old English gorst, from Proto-Germanic *gurstaz.

Noun

goss

1. gorse

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN