different between koss vs goss

English

Noun

koss (plural koss or kosses)

1. Alternative form of coss

Anagrams

• Soks

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse koss, from Proto-Germanic *kussaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??s?/
• Rhymes: -?s?

Noun

koss m (genitive singular koss, nominative plural kossar)

1. a kiss

Declension

Related terms

• kyssa

Norwegian Bokmål

Adverb

koss

1. (non-standard since 1959) alternative form of åssen

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?s?/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

koss f (definite singular kossa, indefinite plural kosser, definite plural kossene)

1. Alternative form of kòs

Noun

koss m or n (definite singular kossen or kosset, indefinite plural kossar or koss, definite plural kossane or kossa)

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Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?s?/ (example of pronunciation)

Adverb

koss

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by korleis

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *kussaz, whence also Old English coss, Old Saxon kus, kos, Old High German kus.

Noun

koss m

1. kiss

Related terms

• kyssa

Descendants

Note: The continental Scandinavian forms with y have been altered by association with the verb kyssa.

References

• koss in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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