goose

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) 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.
2. (countable, uncountable) A female goose.
3. (countable, uncountable) The flesh of the goose used as food.
4. (countable, slang, uncountable) A silly person.
5. (archaic, countable, uncountable) A tailor's iron, heated in live coals or embers, used to press fabrics.
6. (South-Africa, countable, dated, slang, uncountable) A young woman or girlfriend.
7. (historical, uncountable) 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.

Verb

1. (slang, transitive) To sharply poke or pinch the buttocks, or prod between the buttocks, of (a person).
2. (slang, transitive) To stimulate; to spur.
3. (slang, transitive) To gently accelerate (an automobile or machine), or give repeated small taps on the accelerator.
4. (UK, slang) Of private-hire taxi drivers, to pick up a passenger who has not booked a cab, in violation of UK licensing conditions.
5. (slang, transitive) To hiss (a performer) off the stage.

Conceptos

ganso

oca

🪿

ánsar

gansa

aguaitacaimán

guanaba

guanana

meter mano

dar una nalgada

burro

🫏

idiota

Sinónimos

duck

🦆

goofball

swan

🦢

simpleton

turkey

fathead

zany

goof

bozo

jackass

twat

excite

cuckoo

Canada goose

ninny

dolt

dullard

dumbbell

egg on

escalate

exhort

feebleminded

flamingo

🦩

fool

foolish

gander

ganders

gannet

gawk

geese

goad

goon

goosey

goosy

gormless

half-witted

heighten

hen

🐔

incite

increase

instigate

intensify

jog

klutz

light-headed

loon

maned

moron

mug

nincompoop

Traducciones

oie

🪿

Gans

🪿

oca

🪿

gans

🪿

ganso

🪿

oca

🪿

χήνα

anser

🪿

kaz

🪿

auca

qaz

🪿

Ganter

εταχτόχηνα

وَزَّة

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈɡuːs/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: goos

Heredado de inglés antiguo: gōs

Cognado con frisón occidental: goes

Cognado con frisón septentrional: göis

Cognado con frisón septentrional: gus

Cognado con frisón septentrional: Guus

Cognado con bajo alemán: Goos

Cognado con bajo alemán: Gans

Cognado con neerlandés: gans

Cognado con alemán: Gans

Cognado con danés: -

Cognado con sueco: -

Cognado con noruego: gås

Cognado con islandés: gæs

Cognado con irlandés: gé

Cognado con latín: ānser

Cognado con letón: zoss

Cognado con ruso: гусь

Cognado con albanés: gatë

Cognado con griego antiguo: χήν

Cognado con avéstico: 𐬰𐬁

Cognado con sánscrito: हंस

In summary

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.