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goose
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)
- 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.
- A female goose (sense 1).
- The flesh of the goose used as food.
- (slang) A silly person.
- (archaic) A tailor's iron, heated in live coals or embers, used to press fabrics.
- (South Africa, slang, dated) A young woman or girlfriend.
- (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)
- (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.
- 1933, Nathanael West, 'Miss Lonelyhearts'
- (transitive) To stimulate; to spur.
- (transitive, slang) To gently accelerate (an automobile or machine), or give repeated small taps on the accelerator.
- (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.
- (transitive, slang) To hiss (a performer) off the stage.
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goost
Middle English
Noun
goost (plural goosts)
- ghost
- Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde V
- His lighte goost ful blissfully is went.
- Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde V
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