Goosed vs Doosed - What's the difference?
goosed | doosed |
(goose)
Any of various grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae, bigger than a duck
The flesh of the goose used as food.
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(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.
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(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
(degree, dated)
* 1867 , , 2006, Elibron Classics, Volume 1,
* 1872 , Laurence William M. Lockhart, Fair to see ,
* 1938 , G.B. Lancaster (), Promenade ,
As a verb goosed
is past tense of goose.As an adverb doosed is
eye dialect of lang=en.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 .
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)doosed
English
Alternative forms
* doocedAdverb
(en adverb)page 151,
- "Upon my word she's a doosed' good-looking little thing," said Archie, coming up to him, after having also shaken hands with her; — "' doosed good-looking, I call her."
page 149,
- I thought my nephew a fool ; I now know that he is a doosed sensible fellow, and the luckiest dog in Christendom — luckiest dog in Christendom, I declare.
page 143,
- Accepted me, did she? Doosed awkward, that. I thought she had more sense.