goose

Signification (English)

Noun

1. 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 bigger than ducks.
2. A female goose.
3. The flesh of the goose used as food.
4. (slang) A silly person.
5. A tailor's iron, heated in live coals or embers, used to press fabrics.
6. (slang) A young woman or girlfriend.
7. 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) To sharply poke or pinch the buttocks, or prod between the buttocks, of (a person).
2. (slang) To stimulate; to spur.
3. (slang) To gently accelerate (an automobile or machine), or give repeated small taps on the accelerator.
4. (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) To hiss (a performer) off the stage.

Concepts

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🪿

jars

con

coucou

Synonyms

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

nitwit

nudnik

optimize

patsy

potentiate

provoke

push

quicken

raise

rouse

sap

schlep

screw up

silly

stir

streamline

sucker

shlep

twit

urge

wally

whip

wild goose

work

Anatidae

Canadian goose

chevvy

stupid person

blue goose

gaumless

lifehack

nudnick

schlepper

abet

shlepper

accelerate

agitate

airhead

birdbrain

boost

brisk

changeling

chevy

chivvy

chivy

compound

daft

dimwit

dingbat

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈɡuːs/

Étymologie (English)

Inherited from moyen anglais: goos

Inherited from ancien anglais: gōs

Cognate with frison occidental: goes

Cognate with frison septentrional: göis

Cognate with frison septentrional: gus

Cognate with frison septentrional: Guus

Cognate with bas-allemand: Goos

Cognate with bas-allemand: Gans

Cognate with néerlandais: gans

Cognate with allemand: Gans

Cognate with danois: -

Cognate with suédois: -

Cognate with norvégien: gås

Cognate with islandais: gæs

Cognate with irlandais: gé

Cognate with latin: ānser

Cognate with letton: zoss

Cognate with russe: гусь

Cognate with albanais: gatë

Cognate with grec ancien: χήν

Cognate with avestique: 𐬰𐬁

Cognate with sanskrit: 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, Low German 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.