goose
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: PIE word
 *ǵʰh₂éns
From Middle English goos, gos, from Old English gōs, from Proto-West Germanic *gans, from Proto-Germanic *gans, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns.
Cognates
Compare West Frisian goes, North Frisian göis (also Fering-Öömrang dialect North Frisian gus; Sölring dialect North Frisian Guus; Heligoland dialect North Frisian gus), Low German Goos, Gans, Dutch gans, German Gans, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian gås, Icelandic gæs, Irish gé, Latin ānser, Latvian zùoss, Russian гусь (gusʹ), Albanian gatë, Ancient Greek χήν (khḗn), Avestan 𐬰𐬁 (zā), Sanskrit हंस (haṃsá).
* The tailor's iron is so called from the likeness of the handle to the neck of a goose.
Inflected forms:
form: geese
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gooses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: goosing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: goosed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: goosed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: 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 generally bigger than ducks.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There is a flock of geese on the pond.
The goose, reputed to possess high generative power, was sacred to Priapus.
A group of geese is called a gaggle.
gloss: A female goose.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Ganders and geese are at their best for stock from two to ten years old. They live to a great age—it is stated to thirty or more years—but after ten years they cannot be reckoned upon as reliable assets on a farm. Two years old is the best age to mate them, making up pens of a gander and two or three geese at the New Year. It is difficult sometimes to distinguish ganders from geese. A practical man is, however, rarely mistaken.
gloss: The flesh of the goose used as food.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Mrs. Cratchit made the gravy (ready beforehand in a little saucepan) hissing hot; Master Peter mashed the potatoes with incredible vigour; Miss Belinda sweetened up the apple-sauce; Martha dusted the hot plates; Bob took Tiny Tim beside him in a tiny corner at the table; the two young Cratchits set chairs for everybody, not forgetting themselves, and mounting guard upon their posts, crammed spoons into their mouths, lest they should shriek for goose before their turn came to be helped.
gloss: A silly person.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: I'm sorry for you, but you're such a goose.
Have you stopped to think, you gooses, that Andy might not wish you to give it away?
You gooses. I didn’t accept his proposal. Mrs Plackett did. She did because she would. Don’t you see?
Surely I needn’t explain to you gooses that none of you, not even you, Caro, have the sort of dowry or connections or the appeal that such a match would require.
gloss: A tailor's iron, heated in live coals or embers, used to press fabrics.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: Come in, tailor. Here you may roast your goose.
gloss: A young woman or girlfriend.
pos: noun
tags: South-Africa
countable
dated
slang
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: historical
uncountable
gloss: To sharply poke or pinch the buttocks, or prod between the buttocks (of a person).
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: 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.
The witness stand. Goldminers giving evidence, sure he's violent didn't I see him with my own peepers chasing those poor kids up on the roof and he goosed my wife last Christmas. Violently. Just a forceful nudge of the knee.
Here are the three strange men have exposed themselves to me, the two obscene phone callers, the time I was goosed by an employer.
gloss: To stimulate; to spur.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: Almost everyone in McKay’s impossibly starry cast feels like they’re jumping into the SNL host role, game for some light comedic lifting while waiting for the pros to show up and goose the laughs.
The ensuing snarknado also seemed to goose the TV ratings. Hundreds of thousands of viewers switched on the movie after it began, suggesting that they’d gotten wind through Twitter of the bananas spectacle that was unfolding.
In some ways, Joe Biden’s administration goosed the cycle. His administration expanded industrial policy through semiconductor and clean-energy subsidies, […].
gloss: To gently accelerate (a vehicle); to give repeated, small taps on the accelerator of (a vehicle); to feather the throttle of (a vehicle).
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
gloss: Of private-hire taxi drivers, to pick up a passenger who has not booked a cab, in violation of UK licensing conditions.
pos: verb
tags: UK
slang
gloss: To hiss (a performer) off the stage.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
Related words: dove
pigeon
squab
duck
duckling
eider
swan
swanling
anserine
Derived words: ashy-headed goose
a wild goose never laid a tame egg
bar-headed goose
barnacle goose
bean goose
black goose
blue goose
Blue Goose
blue-winged goose
brand goose
brant goose
brent goose
cackle like a goose
cackling goose
Canada goose
Canadian goose
Cape Barren goose
channel goose
China goose
Chinese goose
Christmas goose
colonial goose
common snow goose
cook somebody’s goose
cook someone's goose
cotton pygmy goose
deep goose foot
domestic goose
duck, duck, goose
dunter goose
dwarf goose
Egyptian goose
eider goose
embergoose
ember-goose
Emden goose
emmer-goose
fen goose
game of the goose
gloomy goose
golden goose
gooducken
goosander
goose barnacle
gooseberry
gooseberrying
gooseberryish
gooseberrylike
goosebumped
goose bump
goose-bump
goosebump
goosecap
goose club
Goose Creek
goosedown
goose-drownder
goose-drowner
goose egg
goosefish
goosefleshed
goose-flesher
gooseflesh
goose flesh
goosefleshy
goosefoot
goose foot
goose game
goosegob
goosegog
goosegrass
goose-grass
goose grass
goose grease
Goose Green
gooseherd
Goose Hill
Goosehill
goosehood
goose iron
goose is cooked
gooseish
goose-ish
Goose Lake
gooseless
gooselike
goose-like
gooseling
goosely
gooseneck
gooseneck barnacle
goosenecked
goose-pen
goosepimple
goose pimple
goosepimply
goosequill
gooser
goose-rumped
goosery
gooses
goose saw
goose's foot
gooseskin
goose skin
goosestep
goose-step
goose step
goose-stepper
goosestepper
goosetongue
goose tongue
goose up
Goose Village
gooseweed
goosewing
goose wing
goose-wing
goosey
Goosey Goosey Gander
Goosey Night
goosie
goosish
goosy
Gosling
gray goose
graylag goose
greater snow goose
greater white-fronted goose
green goose
Greenland snow goose
green pygmy goose
Greenwich goose
grey goose
greylag goose
guck
gwan
harvest goose
Hawaiian goose
imber-goose
Joe-the-goose
Joe the goose
kelp goose
kill the goose that lays the golden eggs
laughing goose
lesser snow goose
lesser white-fronted goose
like grease through a goose
like shit through a goose
loose as a goose
loosey goosey
loosey-goosey
Magellan goose
magpie goose
magpie-goose
Malagasy sheldgoose *
Michigoose
Mother Carey's goose
Mother Goose
New Zealand goose
Nile goose
one's goose is cooked
Orinoco goose
peagoose
pig goose
pink-footed bean goose
pink-footed goose
poltergoose
poor man's goose
pygmy goose
rat-goose
red-breasted goose
red goose
road-goose
rock goose
rood goose
Ross’s goose
Ross’s snow goose
rot-goose
ruddy-headed goose
sauce for the goose
say boo to a goose
say bo to a goose
sea goose
sheldgoose
shoe-goose
silly goose
snow goose
solan goose
Solent goose
someone's goose is cooked
sound on the goose
spur-winged goose
spurwing goose
stubble goose
superficial goose foot
swan goose
swoose
Swoose
tailor's goose
the old woman is plucking her goose
tree goose
tundra bean goose
upland goose
ware goose
what's good for the goose is good for the gander
what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander
white-fronted goose
white goose
Whitley goose
wild goose
wild-goose chase
wild goose chase
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