different between goose vs goosh

English

Etymology

From Middle English goos, gos, from Old English g?s, from Proto-West Germanic *gans, from Proto-Germanic *gans, from Proto-Indo-European *??h?éns.

• The tailor's iron is so called from the likeness of the handle to the neck of a goose.
• The verb sense of pinching the buttocks is derived from a goose's inclination to bite at a retreating intruder's hindquarters.

Pronunciation

• enPR: g??s, IPA^(key): /??u?s/, [???s], [??s]
• Rhymes: -u?s

Noun

goose (countable and uncountable, plural geese)

1. Any of various grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae, which have feathers and webbed feet and are capable of flying, swimming, and walking on land, and which are bigger than ducks.

   There is a flock of geese on the pond.

2. A female goose (sense 1).
3. The flesh of the goose used as food.
4. (slang) A silly person.
5. (archaic) A tailor's iron, heated in live coals or embers, used to press fabrics.
6. (South Africa, slang, dated) A young woman or girlfriend.
7. (uncountable, historical) An old English board game in which players moved counters along a board, earning a double move when they reached the picture of a goose.

Usage notes

• A male goose is called a gander. A young goose is a gosling.
• A group of geese can be called a gaggle when they are on the ground or in the water, and a skein or a wedge when they are in flight.

Synonyms

• (tailor's iron): goose iron

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• dove or pigeon, squab
• duck, duckling
• eider
• gander
• gosling
• swan, swanling
• waterfowl
• anserine

Verb

goose (third-person singular simple present gooses, present participle goosing, simple past and past participle goosed)

1. (transitive, slang) To sharply poke or pinch the buttocks of (a person).
   • 1933, Nathanael West, 'Miss Lonelyhearts'

     She greeted Miss Lonelyhearts, then took hold of her husband and shook the breath out of him. When he was quiet, she dragged him into their apartment. Miss Lonelyhearts followed and as he passed her in the dark foyer, she goosed him and laughed.

2. (transitive) To stimulate; to spur.
3. (transitive, slang) To gently accelerate (an automobile or machine), or give repeated small taps on the accelerator.
4. (British slang) Of private-hire taxi drivers, to pick up a passenger who has not pre-booked a cab. This is unauthorised under UK licensing conditions.
5. (transitive, slang) To hiss (a performer) off the stage.

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.