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Etymology

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PIE word
*ǵʰh₂éns

FromMiddle Englishgoos,gos, fromOld Englishgōs, fromProto-West Germanic*gans, fromProto-Germanic*gans, fromProto-Indo-European*ǵʰh₂éns.

Cognates

CompareWest Frisiangoes,North Frisiangöis (also Fering-Öömrang dialectNorth Frisiangus; Sölring dialectNorth FrisianGuus; Heligoland dialectNorth Frisiangus),Low GermanGoos,Low GermanGans,Dutchgans,GermanGans,Danish,Swedish andNorwegiangås,Icelandicgæs,Irishgé,Latinānser,Latvianzùoss,Russianгусь(gusʹ),Albaniangatë,Ancient Greekχήν(khḗn),Avestan𐬰𐬁(zā),Sanskritहंस(haṃsá).

  • Thetailor's iron is so called from the likeness of the handle to the neck of a goose.

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Noun

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Canada goose (Branta canadensis)

goose (countable anduncountable,pluralgeese)

  2. Any of various grazingwaterfowl of the familyAnatidae, which have feathers and webbed feet and are capable of flying, swimming, and walking on land, and which are bigger thanducks.
    There is a flock ofgeese on the pond.
  3. (strictly) Afemale goose.
    • 1902, Lewis Wright, “Geese and Swans”, inThe New Book of Poultry […], London,[…]:Cassell and Company, Limited,page560, column 1:
      Ganders andgeese 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 threegeese at the New Year. It is difficult sometimes to distinguish ganders fromgeese. A practical man is, however, rarely mistaken.
  4. The flesh of the goose used as food.
    • 1843, Charles Dickens, “Stave 3: The Second of the Three Spirits”, inA Christmas Carol:
      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 forgoose before their turn came to be helped.
  5. (slang, pluralgeese orgooses) A silly person.
    • 1906, Langdon Mitchell, “The New York Idea”, in John Gassner, editor,Best Plays of the Early American Theatre, 1787-1911‎[1], published2000,→ISBN, page430:
      I'm sorry for you, but you're such agoose.
    • 1994, Barbara Benedict,Love and Honor, New York, N.Y.:Jove Books,→ISBN, page65:
      Have you stopped to think, yougooses, that Andy might not wish you to give it away?
    • 2014,Julie Berry,The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place, New York, N.Y.: Roaring Brook Press,Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings Limited Partnership,→ISBN:
      Yougooses.I didn’t accept his proposal. Mrs Plackett did. She did because she would. Don’t you see?
    • 2019,Julia London,The Princess Plan,HQN Books,→ISBN:
      Surely I needn’t explain to yougooses thatnone of you, not evenyou, Caro, have the sort of dowry or connections or theappeal that such a match would require.
  6. (archaic) A tailor'siron, heated in live coals or embers, used to press fabrics.
    Synonym:goose iron
  7. (South Africa, slang, dated) Ayoungwoman orgirlfriend.
  8. (uncountable, historical) An old Englishboard game in which players moved counters along a board, earning a double move when they reached the picture of a goose.

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Translations

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a grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae
flesh of a goose used as food

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Verb

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goose (third-person singular simple presentgooses,present participlegoosing,simple past and past participlegoosed)

  1. (transitive, slang) To sharply poke or pinch the buttocks, or prod between 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, shegoosed him and laughed.
    • 1963,J P Donleavy,A Singular Man, published1963 (USA), page36:
      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 hegoosed my wife last Christmas. Violently. Just a forceful nudge of the knee.
    • 1991 August 24, Artemis OakGrove, “I Deserve A Medal”, inGay Community News, volume19, number 6, page 5:
      Here are the three strange men have exposed themselves to me, the two obscene phone callers, the time I wasgoosed by an employer.
  2. (transitive, slang) Tostimulate; tospur.
    • 2021 December 7, Jesse Hassenger, “Leonardo DiCaprio andJennifer Lawrence cope with disaster in the despairing satireDon’t Look Up”, inAV Club‎[2]:
      Almost everyone in McKay’s impossibly starry cast feels like they’re jumping into theSNL host role, game for some light comedic lifting while waiting for the pros to show up andgoose the laughs.
    • 2023 July 10,James Poniewozik, “The Twitter Watch Party Is Over”, inThe New York Times‎[3]:
      The ensuing snarknado also seemed togoose 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.
  3. (transitive, slang) To gently accelerate (an automobile or machine), or give repeated small taps on the accelerator.
  4. (slang, UK) Of private-hiretaxi drivers, to pick up a passenger who has not booked a cab, in violation of UK licensing conditions.
  5. (transitive, slang) Tohiss (a performer) off the stage.
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