goosen.
/ɡuːs/, U.S. /ɡus/ 1.
a. A general name for the large web-footed birds of the sub-family Anserinæ (family Anatidæ), usually larger than a duck, and smaller than a swan, including Anser and several allied genera.Without distinctive addition or context, the word is applied to the common tame goose ( Anser domesticus), which is descended from the wild grey or greylag goose ( A. ferus or cinereus). The other numerous species are distinguished by adjuncts expressing colour, appearance, or habits, as black goose, blue goose, blue-winged goose, laughing goose, pink-footed goose, white-fronted goose, etc.; habitat, as fen goose, marsh-goose, etc.; native region, as American (wild) goose, Chinese goose, etc. See also barnacle goose at barnacle n.2 Additions, bean-goose n., brent-goose n. at brent n., Canada goose n. at Canada n.1 2, etc.
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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > [noun] > member of subfamily Anserinea (goose)
gooseOE
Roger1567
foreman1622
gaggler1624
Tib of the butterya1640
goosey-gandera1816
OE Riddle 24 3 Ic eom wunderlicu wiht, wræsne mine stefne..hwilum græde swa gos, hwilum gielle swa hafoc.
c1000 Laws of Ine (Schmid) c. 70 x gees, xx henna.
a1100 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 284/12 Anser uel ganra, hwit gos. Ganta uel auca, græg gos.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 103 & þe fals ancre draȝeð al into hire hole & fret ase fox deð baðe ges & hennen.
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 702 Hors, and swin..The gees, the hennes of the yerd.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 32 Þo anlikneþ..to þe childe þet ne dar naȝt guo his way uor þe guos þet blauþ.
1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. iv. 38 Bothe my gees and my grys his gadelynges fetten.
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Reeve's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 217 This Millere..rosted hem a goos.
a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 32 (heading) Gose in a Hogge pot.
1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes ii. xxxvii. 157 Had not be the crye of the ghoos..the cite of rome shulde haue be dystroyed.
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) III. 222 Quhilk brocht with thame bayth guiss [and] gryce, and hen.
1604 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1848) II. 251 Puir folkis geir, sic as geisse, foullis, peittis, and vtheris vivaris.
1612 J. Webster White Divel v. I 3 Mar. Those words Ile make thee answere With thy heart bloud. Fla. Doe, like the geesse in the progresse.
1728 A. Pope Dunciad i. 181 Can I..rob the Roman geese of all their glories?
1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. ii. 150 The white fronted Wild goose.
1772 J. Forster in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 62 415 The blue goose is as big as the white goose; and the laughing goose is of the size of the Canada or small grey goose.
1857 D. Livingstone Missionary Trav. S. Afr. xiv. 253 The Barotse valley contains great numbers of large black geese.
1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species i. 39 The common goose has not given rise to any marked varieties.
1870 J. Yeats Nat. Hist. Commerce 314 In the fens of Lincolnshire, geese are kept in large numbers.
1893 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. II 376 The largest living Goose is that called the Chinese, Guinea, or Swan-Goose, Cygnopsis cygnoides.
b. spec. The female bird: the male being the gander n., and the young goslings (see gosling n.).
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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > [noun] > member of subfamily Anserinea (goose) > female
goosec1220
c1220 Bestiary 392 Ȝe feccheð ofte in ðe tun and te gandre and te gos.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 163v Columella would haue you keepe for euery Gander, three Geese.
1622 [see goose-fair n. at Compounds 2a]. 1692 R. L'Estrange Fables ccxxii. 194 Why do you go Nodding, and Waggling so like a Fool, as if you were Hipshot? says the Goose to her Gosselin.
c. The flesh of this bird.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > fowls > [noun] > goose
harvest-goosec1400
goose-fleshc1425
goose1539
harvest-home goose1573
1539 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 30 Goose, is hard of digestion.
1708 Brit. Apollo 22–27 Oct. Who eats Goose on Michael's Day, Shan't Money lack, his Debts to pay.
1786 H. L. Piozzi Anecd. Johnson 103 I was saying to a friend one day, that I did not like goose; one smells it so while it is roasting, said I.
d. In phrases and proverbial sayings. all (his) geese are swans: he invariably exaggerates or over-estimates; so to turn geese into swans, every goose a swan. all right (or sound) on the goose: (U.S.) politically orthodox. the old woman is picking her geese: it is snowing. to cook (rarely do) one's goose: (slang) to ‘do for’ a person or thing; to ruin or kill. to say bo to a goose (see bo int. Phrases 1). to shoe the goose: to spend one's time in trifling or in unnecessary labour. goose without gravy: (Nautical) a bloodless flogging. gone goose: see gone adj. 2. to kill the goose that laid or lays the golden eggs, to destroy a source of one's wealth by one's own heedless action; to sacrifice future advantage to the greed of the moment; also used allusively. See also gander n. 1b.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > be of no avail [verb (intransitive)] > expend effort on something futile
to shoe the goose14..
to send (also carry, etc.) owls to Athens1548
to break, crush, a fly upon the wheel1606
to carry coals to Newcastlea1614
to bang (also run, bash, etc.) one's head against a brick wall1689
to preach to the converted1857
to be on a hiding to nothing1905
to chase one's tail1963
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [phrase] > attaching too much importance
all (his) geese are swans1621
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > exaggeration, hyperbole > speak or do with exaggeration [phrase]
to go beyond the moon?c1430
to cast beyond the moon1559
to lay on load?1562
to lay it on with a trowela1616
all (his) geese are swans1621
to draw (also pull, shoot) the long bow1667
to lay it on thick1740
to sling (also fling, throw) the hatchet1778
to come it1796
to make a thing about (also of)1813
to draw with the long-bow1823
to pitch it strong1823
to overegg the pudding1845
to put (spread, etc.) it on thick1865
to god it1870
to strong it1964
to stretch it (or things)1965
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > bring to ruin or put an end to
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shendOE
forfarea1000
endc1000
to do awayOE
aquenchc1175
slayc1175
slayc1175
stathea1200
tinea1300
to-spilla1300
batec1300
bleschea1325
honisha1325
leesea1325
wastec1325
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corrumpa1340
destroy1340
to put awayc1350
dissolvec1374
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aneantizec1384
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to put outa1398
beshenda1400
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amortizec1405
distract1413
consumec1425
shelfc1425
abroge1427
downthringc1430
kill1435
poisonc1450
defeat1474
perish1509
to blow away1523
abrogatea1529
to prick (also turn, pitch) over the perka1529
dash?1529
to bring (also send) to (the) pot1531
put in the pot1531
wipea1538
extermine1539
fatec1540
peppera1550
disappoint1563
to put (also set) beside the saddle1563
to cut the throat of1565
to throw (also turn, etc.) over the perch1568
to make a hand of (also on, with)1569
demolish1570
to break the neck of1576
to make shipwreck of1577
spoil1578
to knock on (in) the head (also rarely at head)1579
cipher1589
ruinate1590
to cut off by the shins1592
shipwreck1599
exterminate1605
finish1611
damnify1612
ravel1614
braina1616
stagger1629
unrivet1630
consummate1634
pulverizea1640
baffle1649
devil1652
to blow up1660
feague1668
shatter1683
cook1708
to die away1748
to prove fatal (to)1759
to knock up1764
to knock (or kick) the hindsight out or off1834
to put the kibosh on1834
to cook (rarely do) one's goose1835
kibosh1841
to chaw up1843
cooper1851
to jack up1870
scuttle1888
to bugger up1891
jigger1895
torpedo1895
on the fritz1900
to put paid to1901
rot1908
down and out1916
scuppera1918
to put the skids under1918
stonker1919
liquidate1924
to screw up1933
cruel1934
to dig the grave of1934
pox1935
blow1936
to hit for six1937
to piss up1937
to dust off1938
zap1976
the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery, superiority, or advantage [verb (intransitive)] > defeat completely
to break one's back or neck1579
to be too many for1692
to do for ——1740
to cook (rarely do) one's goose1835
to fix (another's) flint1836
to cut the ground from under one (or one's feet)1855
the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > overcome or defeat > defeat completely or do for
overthrowc1375
checkmatea1400
to bring or put to (or unto) utterance1430
distrussc1430
crusha1599
panga1600
to fetch off1600
finish1611
settle?1611
feague1668
rout1676
spiflicate1749
bowl1793
to settle a person's hash1795
dish1798
smash1813
to cook (rarely do) one's goose1835
thunder-smite1875
scuppera1918
to put the bee on1918
stonker1919
to wrap up1922
root1944
banjax1956
marmalize1966
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [verb (intransitive)] > attach importance to > exaggerate
exagger1535
to turn geese into swans1867
14.. Why I can't be Nun 254 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 144 He schalle be put owte of company, And scho the gose.
1476 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 603 As for the castell of Shene, ther is no mor in jt but Colle and hys mak, and a goose may get it; but jn no wyse I wold not that wey.
1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope 190 This fable sayth of a man whiche had a goos that leyd euery day an egge of gold.]
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. ii. 14 Let furth youre geyse; the fox will preche.
1555 J. Heywood Two Hundred Epigrammes with Thyrde sig. C.iiiv Steale a goose, and stycke downe a fether.
1560 J. Heywood Fourth Hundred Epygrams xlv. sig. Biiv A greene goose..is farre the swetter.
1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. E6 Then may he go sue the goose, for house gets he none.
1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Returne of Pasquill sig. C Euery Goose..must goe for a Swan, and whatsoeuer he speakes, must be Canonicall.
1589 Pappe w. Hatchet III. 404 A man..had a goose, which euerie daie laid him a golden egge; hee..kild his goose, thinking to haue a mine of golde in her bellie, and finding nothing but dung..wisht his goose aliue.
1604 N. Breton Grimellos Fortunes (Grosart) 5/1 Yet I can doe something else, then shooe the Goose for my liuing.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy Democritus to Rdr. 39 All their Geese are Swannes.
1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue 133 There is no more pitty to be taken of her then to see a goose goe bare-foote.
1624 R. Montagu Gagg for New Gospell? xiii. 90 With Catholikes euery Pismire is a Potentate: as euery Goose a Swan.
1640 Wizard (MS.) in R. Nares Gloss. He hath the goose by the neck.
1650 Woodstock Scuffle sig. A3 There's not a Man..can say (Boh!) unto a Divell, Or to a Goose that is uncivill.
1659 J. Howell Prov. Eng. Toung 1/1 in Παροιμιογραϕια To steal a Goose, and give the giblets in almes.
1692 R. L'Estrange Fables cccii. 264 Sauce for a Goose is Sauce for a Gander.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew (at cited word) Find fault with a Fat Goose, or without a Cause.
1835 Public Ledger 20 Aug. Because the defendant would not give them facilities for running contraband goods ashore they had threatened to cook his goose for him; in other words, to be revenged.
1845 J. R. Planché Golden Fleece i. 7 To save my bacon I must cook his goose!
1849 C. K. Sharpe Let. 10 Sept. in Corr. (1888) II. 597 [They] may be thankful that she did not ‘do their goose for them’, to use a vulgar phrase.
1851 Street Ballad in H. Mayhew London Labour I. 227/2 If they come here we'll cook their goose, The pope and Cardinal Wiseman.
1856 S. Robinson Kansas (ed. 3) 252 All persons who could not answer ‘All right on the goose’, according to their definition of right, were..threatened with death.
1857 Providence Jrnl. 18 June To seek for political flaws is no use, His opponents will find he is ‘sound on the goose’.
1861 A. Trollope Framley Parsonage III. xi. 195 Chaldicotes..is a cooked goose, as far as Sowerby is concerned.
1862 G. Dodd Where do We get It? ii. 103 The natives adopted a reckless way of cutting down the trees in order to obtain the sap; but they are now gradually accustoming themselves to a more economical method—they preserve the ‘goose that lays the golden eggs’.
1863 C. Reade Hard Cash xiv If you worry or excite your brain..you will cook your own goose—by a quick fire.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Goose without gravy.
1868 E. Yates Rock Ahead III. iii. v. 191 It..will be quite enough to cook your goose as it is.
1884 Sat. Rev. 5 July 25/1 The besetting temptation which leads local historians to turn geese into swans.
1887 W. E. Norris Major & Minor v If Brian had only known how immensely he had risen in her respect by the not very extraordinary display of talent and ability which he had just made, he would doubtless have hastened to kill the goose that laid the golden eggs by playing classical compositions till he wearied her.
1917 J. Galsworthy Five Tales (1918) 77 You're getting a thousand a year out of my fees. Mistake to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. I'll make it twelve hundred.
1921 T. R. St.-Johnston Islanders of Pacific 295 Even an insouciant native hesitates to kill the goose that lays his ‘golden eggs’, for the tapping of the crown is generally fatal to the palm-tree.
1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers (London ed.) 207 Is that you, American Eagle? Or are you the goose that lays the golden egg?
1930 A. E. Housman Let. 21 Mar. (1971) 293 On the one hand I must thank and congratulate you, but on the other you have cooked your own goose.
1935 T. S. Eliot Murder in Cathedral i. 25 Leave well alone, Or your goose may be cooked and eaten to the bone.
1946 W. S. Maugham Then & Now xii. 71 ‘I can count on your discretion, Messer Niccolo? My life would be short if it were discovered that I have told you what I have.’ ‘I know. But I am not one to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.’
1965 Melody Maker 25 Sept. 20 Let's hope that promoters have learned from past experience and don't kill the geese that lay the golden pop eggs.
e. With allusion to the supposed stupidity of the goose.
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1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie xviii. 105/2 If his father let him haue his swindge lyke a goose: hee putteth the halter about his neck.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. ii. sig. Kk2v Where this goose (you see) puts downe his head, before there be any thing neere to touch him.
1587 D. Fenner Def. Godlie Ministers sig. Fivv He would thinke vs more simple then a gosse, which will run from the Foxe.
1781 H. Cowley Belle's Stratagem v. i I have not slept a wink to-night, for thinking of plots to plague Doricourt; and they drove one another out of my head so quick, that I was as giddy as a goose; I could make nothing of 'em.
1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. xiii. 273 A twa-leggit creature, wi' a goose's head and a hen's heart.
f. Hence figurative. A foolish person, a simpleton.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > foolish person, fool > fool, simpleton > [noun]
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Tom Towly1582
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hoddy-doddy1601
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wigeon1607
fondrel1613
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pigwidgeon1640
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Tony1654
nizy1673
Simple Simon?1673
Tom Farthing1674
totty-head1680
cockcomb1684
cod1699
nikin1699
sap-pate1699
simpkin1699
mackninnya1706
gilly-gaupus?1719
noodle1720
sapskull1735
gobbin?1746
Judy1781
zanya1784
spoony1795
sap-head1798
spoon1799
gomerel1814
sap1815
neddy1818
milestone1819
sunket1823
sunketa1825
gawp1825
gawpy1825
gawpus1826
Tomnoddy1826
Sammy1828
tammie norie1828
Tommy1828
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noodlehead1835
nowmun1854
gum-sucker1855
flat-head1862
peggy1869
noodledum1883
jay1884
toot1888
peanut head1891
simp1903
sappyhead1922
Arkie1927
putz1928
steamer1932
jerk-off1939
drongo1942
galah1945
Charley1946
nong-nong1959
mouth-breather1979
twonk1981
1547 Certain Serm. or Homilies Against Contention ii, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) i. 138 Shall I stand still, like a goose or a fool, with my finger in my mouth?
a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) iv. iii. sig. F.iiij Go to you goose.
1588 ‘M. Marprelate’ Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges: Epist. 19 I perceiue you will prooue a goose.
1624 R. Montagu Gagg for New Gospell? xlvii. 327 Can this Goose gaggle against this?
1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. x. 87 He did..play the very Goose himself.
1807 ‘P. Plymley’ Two Lett. on Catholics i. 5 I have always told you from the time of our boyhood, that you were a bit of a goose.
1861 Sat. Rev. 21 Sept. 303 If he was goose enough to be seriously and permanently angry at his wife having [etc.].
1887 R. N. Carey Uncle Max xiv. 110 What a goose I was to leave my muff behind me.
g. With allusion to the hissing noise made by the goose; esp. Theatrical slang (see quots. 1805, 1865 for goose-weed n. at Compounds 2b).
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > [noun] > audience reaction
exsibilation1640
call1754
encore1763
goose1805
the big bird1825
recall1851
curtain1884
curtain-call1884
slow burn1936
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > other vocal sounds > [noun] > hissing > in disapproval
hissingc1384
hiss1602
goose1805
sibilation1822
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > [noun] > expression of disapproval > by sounds or exclamations > specifically in the theatre
exsibilation1640
goose1805
1805 C. L. Lewes Mem. IV. 180 By some it is said the ‘goose’ is in the house.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas I. ii. viii. 301 [We] began hissing, to remind him of his first appearance at Madrid. The goose grated harsh upon his tympanum.
1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) (at cited word) ‘To get the goose’..signifies to be hissed while on the stage.
1897 H. Tennyson Alfred Ld. Tennyson: Mem. I. i. 14 About his blank verse he [sc. Ld. Tennyson] said to me..‘A fine ear for vowel-sounds, and the kicking of the geese out of the boat (i.e. doing away with sibilations)’.
2. Applied with distinguishing prefix to certain other birds of the same or a related family, as Cape Barren goose n. Cereopsis novæ-hollandiæ. Egyptian goose n. (also Nile goose) Chenalopex ægyptiaca. spur-winged goose n. (the African genus Plectropterus), etc. Also to certain sea-birds like or likened to a true goose, as the solan goose (see solan n. 2). Mother Carey's goose: see Mother Carey n. 3. sly goose n. (see quot. 1844).
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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > [noun] > member of subfamily Anserinea (goose) > genus Cereopsis (Cape Barren goose)
Cape Barren goose1843
pigeon-goose1890
the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > [noun] > member of subfamily Anserinea (goose) > plectropterus or spur-winged goose
gambo-goose1676
spurwing1842
spur-winged goose1843
1843 J. Backhouse Narr. Visit Austral. Colonies vi. 75 Five Pelicans and some Cape Barren Geese, were upon the beach.
1844 W. H. Maxwell Wanderings in Highlands & Islands II. xx. 279 The sheldrake..from its wide-awake habits, acquiring the Orcadian sobriquet of the sly-goose.
1884 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Old Melbourne Mem. II. 22 The pied goose..were our chief sport and sustenance.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > venereal disease > [noun] > other venereal diseases
Winchester goose1598
crystalline1674
chancroid1858
soft chancre1858
soft sore1860
genital herpes1877
genital wart1881
bubo1896
granulomatosis1911
trichomoniasis1915
granuloma inguinale1918
LGV1949
chlamydia1984
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > a prostitute
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whoreOE
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common womanc1330
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bordel womanc1405
putaina1425
brothelc1450
harlot?a1475
public womanc1510
naughty pack?1529
draba1533
cat1535
strange woman1535
stew1552
causey-paikera1555
putanie?1566
drivelling1570
twigger1573
punka1575
hackney1579
customer1583
commodity1591
streetwalker1591
traffic1591
trug1591
hackster1592
polecat1593
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mermaid1595
medlar1597
occupant1598
Paphian1598
Winchester goose1598
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prostitution1605
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night trader1630
coolera1632
meretrician1631
painted ladya1637
treadle1638
buttock1641
night-walker1648
mob?1650
lady (also girl, etc.) of the game1651
lady of pleasure1652
trugmullion1654
fallen woman1659
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small girl1671
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vizard-mask1672
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town miss1675
town woman1675
lady of the night1677
mawks1677
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Whetstone whore1684
man-leech1687
nocturnal1693
hack1699
strum1699
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market-dame1706
screw1725
girl of (the) town1733
Cytherean1751
street girl1764
monnisher1765
lady of easy virtue1766
woman (also lady) of the town1766
kennel-nymph1771
chicken1782
stargazer1785
loose fish1809
receiver general1811
Cyprian1819
mollya1822
dolly-mop1834
hooker1845
charver1846
tail1846
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cocotte1867
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girl of the pavement1900
pross1902
prossie1902
pusher1902
split-arse mechanic1903
broad1914
shawl1922
bum1923
quiff1923
hustler1924
lady of the evening1924
prostie1926
working girl1928
prostisciutto1930
maggie1932
brass1934
brass nail1934
mud kicker1934
scupper1935
model1936
poule de luxe1937
pro1937
chromo1941
Tom1941
pan-pan1949
twopenny upright1958
scrubber1959
slack1959
yum-yum girl1960
Suzie Wong1962
mattress1964
jamette1965
ho1966
sex worker1971
pavement princess1976
parlour girl1979
crack whore1990
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. xi. B22 My feare is this, Some gauled goose of Winchester would hisse. View more context for this quotation
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Clapoir, a botch in the Groyne, or yard; a winchester goose.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) i. iv. 52 Winch. Gloster, thou wilt answere this before the Pope. Glost. Winchester Goose, I cry, a Rope, a Rope.]
1630 J. Taylor Wks. i. 105/2 Then ther's a Goose that breeds at Winchester, And of all Geese, my mind is least to her.
1661 Cure for Cuckold iv. i. sig. F This Informer..had belike some private dealings with her, and there got a Goose..This fellow in revenge for this, informs against the Bawd that kept the house.
1699 A. Boyer Royal Dict. (at cited word) A Winchester-Goose, (or Swelling in the Groin) Un Poulain.
1751 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer at Southwark In the times of popery, here were no less than 18 houses on the Bankside, licensed by the Bps. of Winchester..to keep whores, who were, therefore, commonly called Winchester Geese.
4. †(game of) goose: A game played with counters on a board divided into compartments, in some of which a goose was depicted (obsolete). [Compare French jeu de l'oie, Dutch ganzenspel.] fox and geese (see fox n. Compounds 2d); also one of the pieces in this game.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > other board games > [noun] > others
quek1376
quek-board1477
draughtsc1540
goose1597
mancala1687
pachisi1801
Chinese chequers1840
go1840
shogi1858
wari1866
wei ch'i1871
gobang1875
crokinole1885
Kono1895
salta1901
Snakes and Ladders1907
pegity1925
oware1929
monopoly1934
Scrabble1950
morabaraba1953
Chutes and Ladders1955
pentominos1975
Trivial Pursuit1982
1597 in E. Arber Transcript Reg. Company of Stationers 1554–1640 (1876) III. 21 John Wolfe... Entred..the newe and most pleasant game of the goose.
1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa iii. iii. 294 I am like those who play at Goose.
1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 232 The Twelve Good Rules, the Royal Game of Goose.
1801 J. Strutt Sports & Pastimes iv. ii. 250 It is called the game of the goose, because at every fourth and fifth compartment in succession a goose is depicted, and if the cast thrown by the player falls upon a goose, he moves forward double the number of his throw.
1801 J. Strutt Sports & Pastimes iv. ii. 238 To play this game [Fox and Geese] there are seventeen pieces, called geese.
5.
a. A tailor's smoothing-iron. Plural gooses. [So called from the resemblance of the handle to the shape of a goose's neck.]
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > pressing or ironing > ironing or pressing implements
pressing iron1343
cold press1552
setting-stick?1578
putter1583
putting stick1583
poking-stick1592
pooter1596
poting stick1600
poker1604
goose1606
poking-iron?1606
iron1613
smoothing-iron1627
steel1638
box iron1640
smoothing-boxa1684
press iron1695
ironing board1721
sad iron1759
ironing blanket1774
ironing table1778
flat-iron1810
sleeve-board1826
ironer1833
Italian iron1833
press-board1849
ironing machine1851
goffering-iron1861
skirt-board1861
goffer1865
trouser press1880
ironing board cover1886
trouser presser1888
electric iron1890
press cloth1918
press-pad1924
tie press1926
steam-iron1951
pressing board1969
1606 T. Dekker Newes from Hell sig. D3v Euery man being armed with his sheeres and pressing Iron, which he calls there his goose (many of them being in France:).
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) ii. iii. 14 Come in Taylor, here you may rost your Goose . View more context for this quotation
a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) II. 348 His Tongue is a kind of Taylor's Goose or hot Press, with which he sets the last Gloss upon his coarse decayed Wares.
a1777 S. Foote Trip to Calais (1778) i. 24 It is the first I ever heard of a tailor's goose hissing!
1841 J. T. J. Hewlett Parish Clerk I. 281 The seam being sewed up, he required the assistance of the goose to press it.
1881 C. Gibbon Heart's Probl. (1884) i. 5 Teddy spat on the goose to test its heat, then polished it vigorously, and began to iron the collar of a coat.
b. (See quot. 1886.)
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1886 Chester Gloss. Goose, hatting term, an implement used in the curling of hat brims.
6. dialect. geese and goslings (cf. gosling n. 4).
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1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words I. 268 Geese and Goslings, the blossoms of the salix; so denominated from the fancied resemblance to a young gosling newly hatched.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 543/1 Goose and Goslings, Orchis Morio.
1889 D. E. Hurst Horsham Gloss. Geese and Goslins, the fully blown and half blown flowers of the willow.
Compounds
C1.
a. General attributive.
goose-breast n.
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1891 W. Morris in J. W. Mackail Life W. Morris (1899) II. 261 Goose-breast colour.
1904 Daily Chron. 19 Mar. 8/5 Smoked goose-breasts.
1963 A. L. Simon Conc. Encycl. Gastron. (new ed.) vii. 565 Minced Goosebreast.
goose-down n.
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1866 W. D. Howells Venetian Life xv. 208 A gentle snow-fall of goose-down.
goose-dung n.
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1710 T. Fuller Pharmacopœia Extemporanea 52 Take..Goose-dung..2 ounces.
goose-fat n.
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1815 Sixteen & Sixty ii. ii Shut that damned ugly mouth instantly, or I'll stuff it with soap cerate and goose-fat.
goose-feather n.
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c1450 Middle Eng. Med. Bk. (Heinrich) 82 Take a gose feþer, and do awey þe foom aboue.
1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus ii. f. 16 [A] sely poore gouse fether could not please him to shoote wythal.
1820 W. Scott Abbot I. xv. 327 His lance is no goose-feather, as Dan's ribs can tell.
goose-giblet n.
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1545 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Prouerbes (new ed.) f. xxxviv As I say in our englyshe prouerbe: Set the hares head against the gose gyblet. [See also 1546 J. Heywood Prov. (1867) 52; 1607 Dekker Westw. Hoe v. iv, Dramatic Wks. 1873, and note.]
1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington sig. D4v Tis an olde prouerbe and a true, Goose giblets are good meate, old sacke better then new.
goose-head n.
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a1600 A. Montgomerie Misc. Poems x. 5 They get ay a good goosheid In recompense of all thair pane.
goose-look n.
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) v. iii. 12 Thou cream-fac'd Loone: Where got'st thou that Goose-looke . View more context for this quotation
goose-pond n.
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1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 197 A ducking in the goose-pond.
goose-tribe n.
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1831 C. L. Bonaparte A. Wilson's Amer. Ornith. IV. 341 Anas, or Goose tribe.
goose-turd n. (†also attributive referring to colour; hence goose-turd-green.)
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1544 Will of Charles White (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/30) f. 179v A gowne lyned of gosetourde grene.
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. vi. sig. Iii Bearyng no more rule, than a goose turd in tems.
1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 94 Greenish yellow, or as we terme it, a goose turde greene.
1612 B. Jonson Alchemist iv. iv. sig. I4v The Citizens..praise her Tires, And My-Lords Goose turd bands. View more context for this quotation
goose-yard n.
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1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. IV. xi. 143 A perfect goose-yard cackle of complaint.
b. Objective.
(a)
goose-crammer n.
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1828 M. R. Mitford Our Village (1863) III. 119 The Penge is almost peopled with duck-rearers and goose-crammers.
goose-gagger n.
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1624 R. Montagu Gagg for New Gospell? xli. 281 Goe learn to speak and write, Sir giddy Goose-gagger, and then vndertake to stop the Protestants mouthes.
goose-stealer n.
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1565–73 in J. Raine Depositions Courts Durham (1845) 104 I am neyther goossteler nor steg steiler.
(b)
goose-eating n.
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1566 Acc. in T. Sharp Cov. Myst. (1825) 214 Payd att the gose etynge to the mynstrelles..xij d.
(c)
goose-bearing adj.
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1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. III. 439 The Goose-bearing bernacle.
goose-chasing adj.
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1596 J. Harington New Disc. Aiax sig. G4v I loue not to ride with these goose chasing youthes.
c. Similative.
(a)
goose-gaggler n.
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1624 R. Montagu Gagg for New Gospell? xxiii. 190 And yet this giddy Goose-gaggler must prate..against the Church of England.
(b)
goose-footed adj.
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1735 W. Somervile Chace iv. 398 O'er yon dank rushy Marsh The sly Goose-footed Proler bends his Course.
goose-green adj.
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1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre ii. iv. 22 in Wks. II Ballads!... Another of Goose-greene-starch, and the Deuill.
goose-grey adj.
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a1693 J. Aubrey Brief Lives: W. Petty (1898) II. 145 His eies are a kind of goose-grey.
goose-headed adj.
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1581 N. Burne Disput. Headdis of Relig. 187 b Daft Abbotis..guseheaddit Personis.
C2.
a. † goose-cree n. Obsolete (see quot. and crew n.2). † goose-gate n. [gate n.2] Obsolete right of pasture for a goose.† goose-pan n. Scottish Obsolete (apparently) a large stew-pan.† goose-par n. Obsolete = goose-pen n. (a).
goose-barnacle n. = barnacle n.2 2.
goose-beak n. a name given to the dolphin from the shape of its snout ( Cent. Dict.).
goose-bone n. a bone of a goose, esp. one used as a weather-guide.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > study or science of weather > [noun] > weather prediction > goose bone used as weather guide
goose-bone1708
the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > [noun] > member of subfamily Anserinea (goose) > parts of
goose-skin1702
goose-bone1708
stomach-pouch1854
1708 Brit. Apollo 22–27 Oct. Just rose from picking of Goose bones.
1886 E. L. Bynner Agnes Surriage xxi. 231 My father used to say..there's no chance of a clearing when the wind backs round. Mother never heeds the wind; she goes by the goose-bone.
goose bumps n. North American = gooseflesh n. 2a.
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the mind > emotion > fear > physical symptoms of fear > [noun] > hair standing on end or gooseflesh
horripilation1656
goose-skin1785
goose-flesha1834
chicken flesh1844
goose pimples1889
goose bumps1933
1933 C. Miller Lamb in Bosom xi. 148 She rubbed down the skin of her arms and legs where goose-bumps stood on every pore as though it were cold weather.
1968 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. XLIX. 17 Goose bumps..seems to be replacing both goose flesh and goose pimples.
1970 Washington Post 30 Sept. D3/1 I no longer get goose~bumps before a game.
goose-cart n. a special cart for taking geese to market.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > wagon or cart for specific articles > for livestock
cattle-truck1859
cattle-wagon1861
goose-cart1895
1895 J. J. Raven Hist. Suffolk 242 To get the advantage of the later markets, a goose-cart was invented, four stories high.
goose-chase n. (see wild goose chase n.).
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1895 Sat. Rev. 17 Aug. 198/1 The cackling Cust..has fresh leisure for fresh goose-chases.
goose-club n. an association formed to provide the members with geese.
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1859 G. A. Sala Gaslight & Daylight ii. 16 Turkeys from the country; Goose Clubs in town.
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1674 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words 134 A Geose or Goose cree [printed Grose cree], a hut to put Geese in.
goose dinner n. (see goose match n.).
goose drownder n. U.S. dialect (see quot. 1969).
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1929–33 H. Wentworth Amer. Dial. Dict. Goose drownder.
1969 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 22 Aug. 4/6 Other two-word names for a heavy rain..are: bresh- or brush-mover, bridge~lifter, goose drownder, gully-washer, sand-packer, toad-strangler, and trash-mover.
goose-dung-ore n. Mineralogy an impure iron sinter containing silver.
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the world > the earth > minerals > ore > [noun] > metal ore > silver ore > types of
glass-ore1683
goose-silver-ore1776
silver glass1797
silver-glance1805
goose-dung-ore1858
1858 Greg & Lettsom Man. Mineral. 277 The mineral..goose-dung ore, has been shown to be an impure variety of iron sinter.
goose-eye n. a pattern used in weaving.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > patterns used in
pick-and-pick1878
rosepath1932
goose-eye1957
wheatear1957
1957 L. E. Simpson & M. Weir Weaver's Craft (ed. 8) xii. 151 The patterns most generally used for tweeds are: 1. Twill... 4. Bird eye twill. 5. Goose eye.
1960 G. Lewis Handbk. Crafts 121 For this purpose [sc. variety] twill, goose-eye and rosepath are all excellent... Goose-eye with its diamond-shaped pattern is perhaps best employed in a rug made in one colour on a different-coloured warp.
goose-fair n. a fair held in certain English towns (still at Nottingham) about Michaelmas, when geese are in season.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > market > [noun] > annual > specific
mart1606
goose-fair1622
aftermarket1800
Skire Thursday1825
1622 N. Breton Strange Newes (Grosart) 7/1 No man must denie his neighbours Goose his Gander, for feare of wanting Goslings at Goose Faire.
1970 Daily Mail 3 Oct. 7/1 In Nottingham, stalls at the famous Goose Fair were overturned by a gale.
goose-file n. = single file n. at single adj. Compounds 2a, Indian file n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > arrangement in (a) row(s) or line(s > [noun] > a line or row > of people or things one behind the other > of people one behind the other
single file1670
Indian file1758
goose-file1876
1876 J. Grant Hist. India I. xlviii. 244/2 The old way had been the ‘Indian file’, following each other in succession (vulgarly called by the soldiers ‘goose-file’).
goose-fish n. U.S. the angler or fishing-frog ( Lophius piscatorius).
ΚΠ
1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) Goose-fish. See Devil~fish.
1884–5 Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) III. 295 The most common of the American names, ‘goose-fish’, alludes to its capacity to master and ingest the well-known bird in its capacious maw.
goose game n. Cricket very cautious play adopted by a batter (no longer current).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > [noun] > types of batting
blocking1637
quilting1822
defence1825
cutting1827
forward play1828
defensive1832
swiping1833
back-cutting1842
straight play1843
back play1844
sticking1873
leg play1877
off-driving1884
gallery-hitting1888
goose game1899
straight driving1904
stroke-play1905
pad play1906
on-driving1948
stroke-making1956
1899 J. C. Snaith Willow the King xiv. 224 Don't play the goose game. Hard slogging's the sort o' thing for Grace.
goose-gamer n. one who plays the goose game (no longer current).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricketer > [noun] > batsman > types of batsman
sticker1832
short runner1833
punisher1846
slogger1850
blocker1851
cutter1851
swiper1853
top scorer1860
stick1863
left-hander1864
smiter1878
centurion1886
driver1888
pad-player1888
poker1888
spectacle-maker1893
back-player1897
hooker1900
under-runner1903
puller1911
square cutter1920
straight driver1925
stroke-maker1927
goose-gamer1928
stroke-player1935
flasher1936
sweeper1961
tonker1977
1928 Daily Tel. 26 June 17/1 Jupp took four wickets for 37 runs. The batsmen would not go to fetch him, and nearly all of them are free players by inclination and habit. They are not good goose-gamers.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > tenure and rights > [noun] > rights
pannage1392
commonc1405
stint1437
agistmenta1450
intercommon1449
commonty1466
foggage1471
communitya1475
gist1493
commoning?a1509
arrentationc1540
wether gang1561
browsage1570
pasturage1572
feed1575
intercommoner1581
frankfold1609
broouage1610
fellow commoner1612
horsegate1619
frankfoldage1628
shack1629
tatha1641
retropannage1679
levancy and couchancya1691
commonance1701
stinter1701
horse-lease1721
stray1736
goose-gate1739
commonage1792
twinter1846
couchance1886
levance1886
sheep-stray1891
stintholder1894
1739 Bewholm Inclos. Act 2 Each cottage..hath only one goose-gate in the fallow field.
goose-gull n. a local name of the greater black-backed gull ( Larus marinus).
ΚΠ
1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 208 Goose gull (Ireland).
goose liver n. = foie gras n.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > relish > [noun] > pâté
terrine1702
foie gras1818
Strasbourg pâté1827
pâté1841
rillettes1858
goose liver1860
liver pâté1860
pâté de foie gras1892
pâté de campagne1931
pâté maison1947
rough pâté1961
1860 C. Dickens Uncommerc. Traveller in All Year Round 7 Apr. 560/1 I set him up in business in the goose-liver line.
1958 Catal. County Stores Taunton June 20 Goose Liver Purée with Truffles..a glass 3/9.
1967 L. Deighton London Dossier 55 Sandwiches..with unusual fillings like game pâté, rillette, and goose liver.
goose man n. New Zealand one who operates a goose saw.
ΚΠ
1943 J. A. W. Bennett in Amer. Speech 18 85 The timber trade..has supplied a wide variety of occupational terms..goose man (‘drag’ and ‘goose’ are various types of saw; cf. U.S. drag-saw).
1957 N.Z. Timber Jrnl. July 49/1 Gooseman, the operator of a goose saw.
goose match n. Cricket (see quots.).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > [noun] > cricket-match > types of match
county match1748
test match1857
bowler's (or bowlers') match1863
goose match1885
cricket test1907
test1908
runathon1932
one-dayer1985
1885 P. M. Thornton Harrow School xiv. 339 The Goose Match is the last game of cricket played in the year at Harrow. A goose dinner follows.
1905 H. A. Vachell Hill ii. 27 The Goose Match, the last cricket~match of the year, played between the Eleven and the Old Boys, on the nearest Saturday to Michaelmas Day.
1970 Sunday Tel. 27 Sept. 29/8 He refers to the rained off Goose Match at Harrow, cancelled, he believes, for the first time in 165 years.
goose-mouth n. (see quot.).
ΚΠ
1879 Leeds Mercury 9 May The animal [a horse] had what was called a ‘goose’ mouth.—His Honour: What is that?—Plaintiff: Lapping over like a hare.
goose-mussel n. = barnacle n.2 2.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Entomostraca > order Cirripedia > suborder Thoracica > member of
barnaclec1571
goose-mussel1863
sea-thorn1891
1863 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) III. 646 The common Goose-mussel or Duck-barnacle.
goose-oven n. a stove for heating a tailor's goose.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > stove to heat tailor's goose
goose-oven1877
1877 W. H. Thomson Five Years' Penal Servitude iii. 90 One man specially attends to the ‘goose-oven’.
goose-paddle v. transitive to propel by paddling like a goose.Apparently an isolated use.
ΚΠ
1845 D. Jerrold St. Giles (1851) xxvi. 265 Whether the thing to be seen is a lord mayor's coach..or a zany on a river, goose-paddled in a washing-tub, the sons of Adam will throng to the sight.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking vessel or pot > [noun] > pan > saucepan or stewpan
goose-pan1420
saucepot1516
stupnet1560
beef-boiler1611
chafern1613
stupan1617
stewpot1629
saucepan1639
stewpan1653
casserole1725
goblet1739
double boiler1879
double saucepan1880
cassolette1898
cassoulet1940
saucier1978
1420 Inv. in Lincoln Chapter Acc. Bk. A. 2. 30. lf. 69 1 gose~panne.
c1575 J. Balfour Practicks (1754) 235 The air sall haue..ane mekle and litle pan, ane guse pan, ane frying pan [etc.].
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > poultry-keeping > [noun] > enclosure for poultry > place where geese kept
goose-house1474
goose-par1552
goose-pena1616
goosery1828
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Gose parre [sic; 1572 gose penne], or coupe, or francke to feade gese in, chenoboscion.
goose-pen n. (a) a pen or enclosure for geese; †(b) a quill pen.
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society > communication > writing > writing materials > writing instrument > [noun] > pen > quill pen
featherc1000
swan-pen1426
goose-quill1552
quill1552
goose-pena1616
pen1653
quill pen1725
crow-quill1740
twill1825
swan-quill1839
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > poultry-keeping > [noun] > enclosure for poultry > place where geese kept
goose-house1474
goose-par1552
goose-pena1616
goosery1828
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. ii. 48 Let there bee gaulle enough in thy inke, though thou write with a Goose-pen . View more context for this quotation
goose-pie n. a pie made of goose, etc.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > pie > [noun] > pie with fowls
pigeon pie1575
chicken pie1584
turkey-tomba1640
goose-pie1714
partridge pie1723
rook pie1738
pâté de foie gras1814
Strasbourg pie1838
1714 A. Pope Rape of Lock (new ed.) iv. 33 Here sighs a Jar, and there a Goose-pye talks.
1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. vi. 50 I never dispute your abilities at making a goose-pye.
1837 R. Southey Doctor IV. 70 The great goose-pye, which in the Christmas week was always dispatched by the York coach to Bishopsgate Street.
goose pimples n. = gooseflesh n. 2a.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > fear > physical symptoms of fear > [noun] > hair standing on end or gooseflesh
horripilation1656
goose-skin1785
goose-flesha1834
chicken flesh1844
goose pimples1889
goose bumps1933
the world > life > the body > skin > textures or states of skin > [noun] > goose-flesh
crispation1710
goose-skin1785
hen flesh1825
goose-flesha1834
chicken flesh1844
goose pimples1889
1889 Cent. Dict. Goose-pimples, the pimples of goose-flesh.
1914 Dial. Notes 4 155 Don't stay in bathing so long that you're all goose-pimples when you come out.
1957 L. Sieveking Strange Case in Plays of Year XV. 255 'E ain't arf got a wicked fyce, 'asn't 'e. Makes one come out in goose-pimples to look at 'im.
1959 Times 5 Nov. 14/6 A make-up man kept dodging forward to cover up goose-pimples on the bare shoulders of the two parasolled and picture-hatted belles.
goose-pudding n. (see quot. 1892).
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > puddings > [noun] > other puddings
alker1381
moile1381
tansyc1450
tansy-cakea1475
hasty pudding1598
hodge-puddinga1616
bread pudding1623
marrowbone pudding1623
marrow-pudding1631
turmeric puddinga1704
Indian pudding1722
Westminster fool1723
pease pudding1725
pone1725
bread and butter pudding1727
custard pudding1727
purry1751
tartan-purry1751
tansy-pudding1769
vermicelli pudding1769
skimmer-cake1795
dogsbody1818
kugel1823
stickjaw1827
kheer1832
pea pudding1844
dough1848
mousseline1876
mousse1885
goose-pudding1892
payasam1892
tartan1893
malva puddinga1981
a1549 A. Borde Fyrst Bk. Introd. Knowl. (1870) xxx. 199 & coppyd thinges standeth vpon theyr [women's] hed, within ther kerchers, lyke a codpece or a gose-podynge.
1892 T. F. Garrett & W. A. Rawson Encycl. Pract. Cookery I. 707 In some parts of England, especially in Yorkshire, the people prepare a pudding which they term..Goose Pudding, to be served with Goose.
goose-riding n. (see quot. 1785 and cf. gander-pulling n. at gander n. Compounds 2).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > equestrian sports except racing > [noun] > other competitions
ringa1513
goose-riding1785
tent-pegging1878
lemon-cutting1889
musical chairs1933
1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Goose-riding, a goose being suspended by the legs..a number of men on horseback riding full speed attempt to pull off the head, which, if they effect, the goose is their prize. This has been practised in Derbyshire within the memory of persons now living.
goose-rump n. in a horse, a croup or rump falling suddenly away to the tail; hence goose-rumped adj.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > rump or type of
croupc1300
crouponc1400
crupper1591
goose-rump1679
hog rump1679
1679 Poor Robins Intelligence in Sporting Mag. (1812) 39 61 Sour headed, saddle backed, goose rumped.
1696 London Gaz. No. 3202/4 Rid away with..a brown Mare..a Rose Tail, a Goose Rump.
1799 Sporting Mag. 14 185 The Goose-rump is..another angular infringement of Hogarth's curve of beauty.
1836 Penny Cycl. V. 307/1 The Belgian horses have a great defect in the form of their hips and in the croup, which falls suddenly towards the tail, which is called in England being goose~rumped.
goose saw n. New Zealand (see quot. 1957); also elliptical.
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1943 J. A. W. Bennett in Amer. Speech 18 85 [In New Zealand] ‘drag’ and ‘goose’ are various types of saw; cf. U.S. drag-saw.
1950 Landfall 4 125 The planer..spits out faced boards for the tailer-out to stack by the goose saw.
1957 Brit. Commonw. Forest Terminol.: Pt. II (Empire Forestry Assoc.) 163 Pendulum [saw], a crosscut circular saw mounted on a swinging arm and moved down to and across the timber to be sawn. Syn. Swing saw, Swinging crosscut saw, Goose saw (N.Z.).
goose-shot n. a particular size of shot used for shooting wild geese.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > shooting equipment > [noun] > shot-gun or fowling-piece > shot
swan-shot1639
goose-shota1658
buck-shot1776
mustard seed1809
swan-drop1821
snipe-shot1822
buck1845
swan-post1846
loopers1886
a1658 J. Cleveland Clievelandi Vindiciæ (1677) 129 So long as there is Goose-shot to be had for Money.
1698 J. Wallis in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 6 A Hole about the Bigness of a Goose~shot.
1761 Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. XLVIII. 96 To be sold by George Deblois..bird, pigeon, duck, and goose shot.
1789 Amer. Museum V. 580 A major..received a wound in the cheek with a goose shot.
1898 P. L. Ford Tattle-tales Cupid 51 It passeth human intelligence how Freddy could inspire any sort of feeling except an intense longing for a gun loaded with goose-shot.
goose-silver-ore n. = goose-dung-ore n.
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the world > the earth > minerals > ore > [noun] > metal ore > silver ore > types of
glass-ore1683
goose-silver-ore1776
silver glass1797
silver-glance1805
goose-dung-ore1858
1776 J. Seiferth tr. C. E. Gellert Metallurgic Chym. 38 Goose silver ore.
goose-teal n. ‘the English name for a very small goose of the genus Nettopus’ (Morris Austral Eng. 1898).
goose-trap n. a trap for a ‘goose’, a quibble, sophism; (also) U.S. a swindle.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > [noun] > instance of
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fallation1483
sophisticationa1492
fallax1530
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collusion1581
goose-trap1610
voidance1621
salvea1628
sophistry1673
wriggle1675
Jesuitism1749
special pleader1867
1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God v. x. 212 And what vse is there of these goose-traps [L. tricis illis et verborum laqueis]?
1799 Aurora (Philadelphia) 31 Jan. The gulls and goose-traps that have been sported for some time past all come from the shop in which the Washington Lottery wheels remain undrawn, and where a new goose-trap, the Amuskeag canal, was some time since hammered out.
goose-yoke n. U.S. a yoke to hamper the movements of a goose.
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1842 C. M. Kirkland Forest Life I. xv. 149 A ‘variety store’, offering for sale every possible article of merchandise, from lace gloves to goose-yokes, ox-chains, [etc.].
1863 ‘E. Kirke’ My Southern Friends iii. 48 One half of it [sc. a building] was sparsely occupied with..fishhooks, log chains, goose yokes, etc.
1879 B. F. Taylor Summer-savory xvii. 138 And you find it, the variety store of a hundred years ago, where needles and crowbars, goose yokes and finger-rings, liquorice-stick and leather are to be had for cash or ‘dicker’.
1896 J. C. Harris Sister Jane 2/3 Go show your grandmother how to make a goose-yoke.
b. In various plant-names.† goose-bane n. Obsolete = henbane n.† goose-chite n. Obsolete agrimony ( Agrimonia Eupatoria).† goose-hairif n. Obsolete = goose-grass n. 2, hairif n.† goose-nest n. Obsolete (perhaps) the bird's-nest ( Neottia Nidus-avis).† goose-share n. [? corruption of -hairif] Obsolete = goose-grass n. 2.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > [noun] > henbane
henbanea1300
henbell?a1350
hendwalea1400
close-wortc1450
symphonia1597
goose-bane1600
hog's bane1600
hog's bean1600
English tobacco1653
jusquiam1727
hyoscyamus1799
mountain hemp1882
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. xvi. 108 [He] may keepe them [sc. geese]..from feeding of henbane, which some call the goosebane.
goose-bean n. some Canadian plant.
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1848 Selby in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 No. 6. 262 Specimens of the Goose-bean of Canada.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > agrimony or lady's mantle or burnet
agrimonyeOE
padelion?a1300
burnetc1400
sindaw1548
liverwort1566
great sanicle1578
lady's mantle1578
pimpernel1578
goose-chite1597
philanthropos1597
Poterium1597
lion's foot1611
salading-burnet1766
burnet blood-wort1776
dew-cup1799
sanguisorb1846
salad burnet1854
1597 J. Gerard Herball App. Goosechite is Agrimonie.
goose-corn n. (a) a kind of rush ( Juncus squarrosus): (b) = goose-grass n. 4.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > [noun] > goose-grass
haver grass1578
oat-grass1578
golden oat1716
brome1762
goose-corn1762
pearl grass1794
goose-grass1853
pearl1886
the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [noun] > rush and related plants
rusheOE
sharp rushc1050
seave14..
junk?a1425
candle-rushc1440
rush1562
sea-rush1562
camel's-straw1578
mat-rush1578
sprot1595
frog grass1597
matweed1597
rush grass1597
sprata1600
spart1614
bumble1633
toad-grass1640
moss-rush1670
thresha1689
spreta1700
bog rush1760
black grassa1763
goose-corn1762
toad-rush1776
wood-rush1776
stool-bent1777
scrub-grass1811
beak-rush1830
salt-weed1836
wiwi1840
thread rush1861
three-leaved rush1861
kill-cow1898
1762 W. Hudson Flora Anglica 130 Juncus culmo nudo,..Moss-rush or Goose~corn.
1776 W. Withering Brit. Plants I. 211 Juncus squarrosus..Goose Corn.
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Goose-corn, Field Brome~grass, Bromus secalinus, Linn.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > goose-grass or cleavers
cleaversc1000
hairifc1000
tongue-bleedc1450
goose-grass1530
goose-hairif1551
goose-share1578
clithers1597
goose-bill1597
philanthropos1597
love-man1598
rundles1601
rennet wort1688
catchweed1691
goose-tongue1738
sticking-grass1829
scratch-weed1855
turkey-grass1874
beggars'-lice1880
tongue-bleeder1905
1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. D iiij Goosharethe called also Clyuer..is named in Greeke, Aparine.
1597 W. Langham Garden of Health 290 Gooseheirif or Cleuer.
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1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. lvii. 224 Some Herborists..because that the rootes be so tangled and wrapped like to a nest, have named it Goosenest.
1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke i. xiii. 65 Double leafe, otherwise called goosenest.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > goose-grass or cleavers
cleaversc1000
hairifc1000
tongue-bleedc1450
goose-grass1530
goose-hairif1551
goose-share1578
clithers1597
goose-bill1597
philanthropos1597
love-man1598
rundles1601
rennet wort1688
catchweed1691
goose-tongue1738
sticking-grass1829
scratch-weed1855
turkey-grass1874
beggars'-lice1880
tongue-bleeder1905
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iv. lxiv. 539 This herbe is called..in Englishe, Goosegrasse, Cliuer, and Gooseshare.
goose-tansy n. = goose-grass n. 1.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > rosaceous plants > [noun] > potentilla or cinquefoil
quinquefoileOE
five-leafc1000
goose-grassa1400
camorochec1440
five-leaved grass1526
tansyc1530
cinquefoil1538
potentilla1548
five-fingered grass1562
agrimony1578
silverweed1578
goose-tansy1597
silver grass1600
silverwort1611
five-finger-grass1640
midsummer silvera1697
strawberry cinquefoil1753
Scotch cinquefoil1789
goose-weed1865
five-finger1866
fair days1884
fair-grass1884
potentil1884
1597 W. Langham Garden of Health 629 Drinke the iuice of Tansie, and Goosetansie.
1691 J. Ray N. Country Words 32 Goose grass, Goose tansie, Argentina.
1776 W. Withering Brit. Plants I. 307 Potentilla Anserina..Goose-tansey.
goose-tongue n. (a) sneezewort ( Achillea Ptarmica); (b) = goose-grass n. 2; (c) a crowfoot ( Ranunculus Flammula).
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > goose-grass or cleavers
cleaversc1000
hairifc1000
tongue-bleedc1450
goose-grass1530
goose-hairif1551
goose-share1578
clithers1597
goose-bill1597
philanthropos1597
love-man1598
rundles1601
rennet wort1688
catchweed1691
goose-tongue1738
sticking-grass1829
scratch-weed1855
turkey-grass1874
beggars'-lice1880
tongue-bleeder1905
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > [noun] > sneezewort
hulworta1300
pellitory1544
Ptarmica1597
sneezewort1597
sneezing-wort1611
goose-tongue1738
greenwort1854
1738 G. C. Deering Catalogus Stirpium 179 Ptarmica..Sneezewort..by some called Goose Tongue.
1741 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman May vii. 114 The Goose-tongue Herb grows chiefly in marshy Grounds.
a1824 B. Holdich Ess. Weeds Agric. (1825) 14 Hariff (Galium aparine)..Goosetongue.
goose-tree n. the tree from which barnacle-geese were believed to be produced (cf. note at barnacle n.2 1).
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > unidentified or variously identified > [noun] > mythical or biblical
almug1539
teil1568
goose-tree1597
cerbas1605
heaven-tree1835
heaven-plant1865
1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. 1391 Of the Goose tree, Barnakle tree, or the tree bearing Geese.
goose-weed n. = goose-grass n. 1.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > rosaceous plants > [noun] > potentilla or cinquefoil
quinquefoileOE
five-leafc1000
goose-grassa1400
camorochec1440
five-leaved grass1526
tansyc1530
cinquefoil1538
potentilla1548
five-fingered grass1562
agrimony1578
silverweed1578
goose-tansy1597
silver grass1600
silverwort1611
five-finger-grass1640
midsummer silvera1697
strawberry cinquefoil1753
Scotch cinquefoil1789
goose-weed1865
five-finger1866
fair days1884
fair-grass1884
potentil1884
1865 W. White Eastern Eng. II. 62 Broad margins of grass and goose~weed.
1883 Longman's Mag. July 307 The trailing silverweed or gooseweed of our English roadsides.
goose-wheat n. (see quot. 1897).
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1897 Daily News 10 Sept. 8/3 An inferior grain (used for chicken food mostly) called goosewheat—a bearded variety, hardy and early.
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1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 26 The gut-foundred goosdome, wherewith they are now surcingled and debauched.
ˈgoosehood n. nonce-word the fact of being a goose.
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1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia V. xviii. vii. 180 Goosehood became too apparent.
ˈgooseless adj. nonce-word without a goose.
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1838 Whistle-Binkie 1st Ser. (ed. 2) 23 Any gooseless gander.
1888 Harper's Mag. Dec. 158/1 The bestowal of turkeys upon the turkeyless and geese upon the gooseless.
goose-like adj.
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1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Gose lyke, or pertayninge to a gose, anserinus.
ˈgooseship n. nonce-word a mock title.
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1837 Fraser's Mag. 16 311 His Gooseship, the Right Dull of London.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
goosev.
/ɡuːs/, U.S. /ɡus/ 1. transitive. To press or iron with a tailor's ‘goose’.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > wash clothes [verb (transitive)] > press or iron
set1530
press1555
pote1600
poke1606
smooth1617
iron?1670
goffer1706
steel1746
goose1808
streak1823
flat-iron1865
fuller1880
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. To Goose, to iron linen cloths, S., a word now nearly obsolete.
1859 E. B. Ramsay Reminisc. Sc. Life 189 To prepare them [her caps] for being ironed, or, as she said, to make them ready to be goosed.
2. Theatre slang. To hiss, to express disapproval of (a person or play) by hissing. (Cf. goose n. 1g.)
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > perform [verb (transitive)] > audience reaction
explose?c1550
explode1563
exsibilate1601
be-Roscius1774
to get the (big) bird1825
goose1838
sibilate1864
bird1927
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > disapprove of [verb (transitive)] > express disapproval of > by sound or exclamation
hootc1175
to clap out1550
explose?c1550
explode1563
hiss1598
exsibilate1601
to hum up, down1642
out-hiss1647
chuckle1681
catcall1700
scrape1773
groan1799
to get the (big) bird1825
boo1833
fie-fie1836
goose1838
sibilate1864
cluck1916
bird1927
slow handclap1949
tsk-tsk1966
tut1972
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > other vocal sounds > [verb (transitive)] > hiss > in disapproval
hiss1598
goose1838
sibilate1864
1838 Actors by Daylight 31 Mar. 35 In every scene, O! think of me! And may they goose thee, when you die!
1853 G. A. Sala Slang in Househ. Words 24 Sept. 77/1 Actors speak of..such and such a tragedy being ‘damned’ or ‘goosed’.
1854 C. Dickens Hard Times i. vi. 38 He was goosed last night, he was goosed the night before last, he was goosed to-day. He has lately got in the way of being always goosed, and he can't stand it.
1866 St. James's Mag. 16 69 I tired of the stage, however, although I was never ‘goosed’ in my life.
3. U.S. (See quots.)
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1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) To Goose Boots, to repair them by putting on a new front half way up, and a new bottom.
1889 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang (1897) Goose..(American) to enlarge or repair boots, by a process generally known as footing, i.e. by putting in or adding pieces of leather.
4. slang. To make a ‘goose’ of, befool.
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1889 in A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang (1897)
5. slang. To poke, tickle, etc., (a person) in a sensitive part, esp. the genital or anal regions; sometimes, more specifically, = fuck v. 1.
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the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > sensation of being tickled > tickling > [verb (transitive)]
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ticklec1450
titillate1747
vellicate1756
tiddle1866
goose1879
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > other types of sexual activity or intercourse > engage in other types of sexual activity or intercourse [verb (transitive)] > stimulate genitals of (a person)
gropec1275
feel1569
goose1879
to play with ——1879
fingerc1890
to bring off1916
to feel up1926
to jack off?1927
reef1962
fingle1996
1879–80 Pearl (1970) 257 I don't like to see vulgar girls in the town Pull their clothes up, and stand to be goosed for a crown.
1881 F. Griffin in J. R. Ackerley My Father & Myself (1968) xvii. 200 As soon as..I had learned the goose-step, I had learned to be goosed.
1906 Dial. Notes 3 138 Goose, to create nervous excitement in a person by pointing a finger at him or by touching or tickling him and making a peculiar whistle.
1932 J. T. Farrell Young Lonigan v. 205 Paulie slapped Denny's face. Denny bawled... Paulie goosed him. Denny squirmed.
1943 M. Shulman Barefoot Boy x. 99 As she was bending over her work-table.., a playful lab assistant goosed her.
1959 W. S. Burroughs Naked Lunch 82 Boys..goose each other at the peep show.
1960 I. Wallach Absence of Cello (1961) 109 Elliot..lightly kissed the top of her head. It would be vulgar to say that she leaped as though goosed, but truth can survive anything including vulgarity.
1965 G. McInnes Road to Gundagai vi. 111 He used to..urge them up the rope with a little skilful goosing.
1967 E. Partridge Dict. Slang Suppl. 1152/2 Goose, the predominant post-World War II meaning is ‘to jab a finger in ano, in order to surprise or annoy’.
6. slang. Only in passive: to be finished, ruined.
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the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)] > be finished or ruined
goose1928
to have had it1942
1928 Sunday Disp. 5 Aug. 3/2 We were just about goosed with nothing to think about when our football news supply began and put new life into us.
1959 ‘J. Welcome’ Stop at Nothing viii. 127 If I've guessed wrong and Jason has found out right, then we're goosed.
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ˈgoosing n. also attributive.
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1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Gusing-irne, a smoothing iron, a Gipsey term, South of S.
1862 Illustr. London News 18 Jan. 75/1 ‘Goosing’..appears to have been the fate of lively M. Edmond About's last new play.
Draft additions December 2002
transitive. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.).
a. To goad, spur, or provoke (someone).
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the mind > will > motivation > motivate [verb (transitive)] > incite or instigate
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putOE
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to set on1523
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goad1579
raise1581
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to call ona1592
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to put on1604
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impulse1611
fomentate1613
emovec1614
animalize1617
stimulate1619
spura1644
trinkle1685
cite1718
to put up1812
prod1832
to jack up1914
goose1934
the mind > will > motivation > motivate [verb (transitive)] > incite or instigate > urge on or incite
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eggc1200
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ertc1325
sharpa1340
abaita1470
sharpen1483
to set (a person) forth1488
to set forth1553
egg1566
hound1571
shove?1571
edge1575
strain1581
spur1582
spurn1583
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string1881
haik1892
goose1934
1934 L. Berg Prison Nurse vi. 75 That makes me one up on you! I ‘goosed’ him first that time!
1941 H. A. Smith Low Man vi. 57 I like to goose the people a little and see how they'll react.
1959 E. Hunter Matter of Conviction x. 171 I guess your beating finally goosed the police into action.
1982 L. Olivier Confessions of Actor ii. v. 83 I had the greatest misgivings about the offer. William Wyler, the most prestigious of Hollywood film directors, had..come over to goose me into it.
1990 Newsweek 16 July 57/2 While the chains were goosing the independent booksellers into a more competitive posture..they simultaneously provoked similar shifts in the world of publishing.
b. To feed short bursts of fuel to (an engine or vehicle) using the accelerator or throttle; to employ (the accelerator or throttle) in order to accelerate a vehicle or rev an engine; to accelerate (a vehicle). Also intransitive. Occasionally with up.
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1940 H. E. Hartney Up & at 'Em xv. 257 A lone Spad came in with the pilot goosing his engine and causing a terrific racket.
1956 T. Anderson Your own Beloved Sons iii. 55 Outside sounded the gasket-tearing whine of a jeep being started and goosed.
1974 J. Millard Thunderbolt & Lightfoot iii. 19 The dumb-ass salesman handed me the key, told me to goose it up good, then stepped away.
1980 L. N. Smith Venus Belt 12 in J. E. Lighter Hist. Dict. Amer. Slang (1994) I. 937/1 I reprogrammed the Neova and goosed up to a safe and proper hundred and ten.
1989 T. Clancy Clear & Present Danger xxix. 645 ‘Next stop, Venezuela,’ Larson said as he goosed the throttles.
c. To increase the quantity, size, amount, etc., of. Also with up.
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1949 G. S. Coffin Fortune Poker App. D. 179 Goose, to raise [a bet].
1981 Japan Econ. Jrnl. (Nexis) 26 May 23 Some U.S. banks goosed up their prime rates just when Kabutocho finally convinced itself that interest rates had peaked.
1995 Entertainm. Weekly 25 Aug. 97/1 N.Y.U. executive producer Dick Wolf goosed the ratings for his Law & Order by adding strong female characters.
d. To enliven or jazz up. Frequently with up.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > cheerfulness > make cheerful [verb (transitive)] > make cheerful and lively
alacriate1560
enlivea1617
enliven1701
frisk1802
liven1821
pearten1851
effervesce1866
to liven up1873
to hot up1929
goose1970
to funk up1972
to funk out1995
1970 S. Terkel Hard Times 188 I thought, to goose up the magazine, I would take photographs of people at my own home.
1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 11 Nov. (Weekend Suppl.) 11 Italian animator Bruno Bezzetto..has goosed up the humor with a little more cruelty and a little more sex.
2000 Times 3 Aug. ii. 8/5 I would be caught up in my urban alienation novel..when, almost to the second, his own crude working of the same theme, goosed up with modish apocalyptic concerns, arrived.
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