释义 |
goosery|ˈguːsərɪ| [f. goose n. + -ery.] 1. Silliness such as is attributed to the goose. rare.
1642Milton Apol. Smect. viii. Wks. (1851) 310 The lofty nakednesse of your Latinizing Barbarian, and the finicall goosery of your neat Sermon-actor. 1875–9Carlyle in Mem. Tennyson (1897) II. 235 Goldie was just an Irish blackguard, with a fine brain..and a great fund of goosery. 2. A place in which geese are kept; a collection of geese.
1828Miss Mitford Village Ser. iii. 293 They set up..a cackle which might rival the din of their own gooseries at feeding-time. 1831Blackw. Mag. XXX. 506 On its tiptoes rose the entire Goosery—flap went every wing. |