Goose vs Goosed - What's the difference?
goose | goosed |
Any of various grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae, bigger than a duck
The flesh of the goose used as food.
*
(slang) A silly person
* {{quote-book, 1906, Langdon Mitchell, chapter=The New York Idea, Best Plays of the Early American Theatre, 1787-1911, page=430
, passage=I'm sorry for you, but you're such a goose .}}
(archaic) A tailor's iron, heated in live coals or embers, used to press fabrics.
* Scene 3:
(South Africa, slang, dated) A young woman or girlfriend.
(slang) To sharply poke or pinch someone's buttocks. Derived from a goose's inclination to bite at a retreating intruder's hindquarters.
To stimulate, to spur.
(slang) To gently accelerate an automobile or machine, or give repeated small taps on the accelerator.
(UK slang) Of private-hire taxi drivers, to pick up a passenger who has not pre-booked a cab. This is unauthorised under UK licensing conditions.
English nouns with irregular plurals
(goose)
Any of various grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae, bigger than a duck
The flesh of the goose used as food.
*
(slang) A silly person
* {{quote-book, 1906, Langdon Mitchell, chapter=The New York Idea, Best Plays of the Early American Theatre, 1787-1911, page=430
, passage=I'm sorry for you, but you're such a goose .}}
(archaic) A tailor's iron, heated in live coals or embers, used to press fabrics.
* Scene 3:
(South Africa, slang, dated) A young woman or girlfriend.
(slang) To sharply poke or pinch someone's buttocks. Derived from a goose's inclination to bite at a retreating intruder's hindquarters.
To stimulate, to spur.
(slang) To gently accelerate an automobile or machine, or give repeated small taps on the accelerator.
(UK slang) Of private-hire taxi drivers, to pick up a passenger who has not pre-booked a cab. This is unauthorised under UK licensing conditions.
English nouns with irregular plurals
As verbs the difference between goose and goosed
is that goose is (slang) to sharply poke or pinch someone's buttocks derived from a goose's inclination to bite at a retreating intruder's hindquarters while goosed is (goose).As a noun goose
is any of various grazing waterfowl of the family anatidae, bigger than a duck.goose
English
Noun
(geese)- There is a flock of geese on the pond.
citation
- Come in, tailor. Here you may roast your goose .
Usage notes
* A male goose is called a gander. A young goose is a gosling. * A group of geese can be called a gaggle when they are on the ground or in the water, and a skein or a wedge when they are in flight.Derived terms
* game of the goose * goose egg * goose game * goose pimple * gooseneck * goose-step * Mother Goose * what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander * one's goose is cookedSee also
* duck * eider * gander * swan * waterfowlVerb
(goos)goosed
English
Verb
(head)goose
English
Noun
(geese)- There is a flock of geese on the pond.
citation
- Come in, tailor. Here you may roast your goose .