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Gooseling vs Mooseling - What's the difference?

gooseling | mooseling |

As nouns the difference between gooseling and mooseling

is that gooseling is a small or baby goose; gosling while mooseling is a small, young, or baby moose.

gooseling

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small or baby goose; gosling.
  • *1898 , William Canton, A Child's Book of Saints :
    • I reared her myself—my little white gooseling ;

    mooseling

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) A small, young, or baby moose.
  • * 1915 , Ruth Kedzie Wood, The Tourist's Maritime Provinces , Dodd, Mead, p. 42 (Google snippet view):
    • Gently, with a hand on its furry neck, the three- or four-day-old mooseling was towed back to the shore where the distraught mother was thrashing and stomping among the trees.
  • * 1995 , , The Environmental Imagination , ISBN 9780674258624, p. 198 (Google preview):
    • [M]oose and man are alike as caring parents, and the beast's tragedy, which the man has caused, smites the man's conscience and strengthens his resolve to be a good parent to mooseling as well as child.
  • * 2010 , Russell B. Hanson, "Rambling at the Edge" in St Croix River Road Ramblings , p. 50 (Google preview):
    • [O]ur only visitor on the whole trip was a big moose and her mooseling , more interested in nibbling the brush than bothering us.

    Synonyms

    * calf