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Swan vs Swoose - What's the difference?

swan | swoose |

As nouns the difference between swan and swoose

is that swan is any of various species of large, long-necked waterfowl, of genus Cygnus, most of which have white plumage while swoose is an animal born to a male swan and a female goose.

As proper nouns the difference between swan and swoose

is that swan is {{surname} while Swoose is a B-17 bomber plane used extensively in World War Two.

As a verb swan

is to travel or move about in an aimless, idle, or pretentiously casual way.

swan

English

(wikipedia swan)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Any of various species of large, long-necked waterfowl, of genus Cygnus , most of which have white plumage.
  • (figuratively) One whose grace etc. suggests a swan.
    • Derived terms
    * swanling * swan species: black swan, black-necked swan, mute swan, trumpeter swan, tundra swan, whooper swan * swan boat * swan dive * swanherd * swannery * swansdown * swanskin * swan song
    See also
    * cob (adult male) * cygnet (epicene, young) * lamentation * pen (adult female)

    Verb

    (swann)
  • (British) To travel or move about in an aimless, idle, or pretentiously casual way.
  • * 2010 , Lee Rourke, The Canal , Melville House Publishing (2010), ISBN 9781935554905, unnumbered page:
    • He swans' around that stinking office in his expensive clothes that are a little too tight for comfort, he ' swans around that stinking office without a care in the world.
  • * 2013 , Tilly Bagshawe, One Summer’s Afternoon , HarperCollins (2013), ISBN 9780007472550, unnumbered page:
    • One of the few strokes of good luck Emma had had in recent days was the news that Tatiana Flint-Hamilton, her only real rival for top billing as 'most photographable girl' at today's event had decided to swan off to Sardinia instead, leaving the limelight entirely to Emma.
    Usage notes
    * In the sense "to travel", usually used as part of the phrase "to swan about" or "to swan around".

    Etymology 2

    Probably from dialectal , contraction of "I shall warrant"; later seen as a minced form of (term).

    Verb

    (swann)
  • (US, slang) To declare (chiefly in first-person present constructions).
  • * 1907 December, J. D. Archer, Foiling an eavesdropper'', in ''Telephony , volume 14, page 345:
    • "Well, I swan , man, I had a better opinion of you than that."
  • * 1940 , (Raymond Chandler), Farewell, My Lovely , Penguin 2010, page 214:
    • ‘She slammed the door so hard I figured a window'd break .’ ‘I swan ,’ I said.

    Anagrams

    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) ----

    swoose

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (informal) An animal born to a male swan and a female goose
  • * 1920 13 July, Daily Mail
    • A bird prodigy of evil and hybrid character is the despair of a Norfolk farmer. It rejoices in the name of the “swoose” , a portmanteau word indicating its origin, for its father was a swan and its mother a goose. This ill-assorted pair had three children — three “sweese”.
  • * 1928 John C. Phillips, "Another "Swoose" or Swan × Goose Hybrid," The Auk , Vol. 45, No. 1 (Jan., 1928), pp. 39-40
    • Mr. Peirce had already promised the bird to me, and so, during the summer, hearing that a more or less fabulous fowl had arrived from nowhere in particular, I visited the Park and Mr. Peirce’s long lost “Swoose .”
  • * 1968 Samuel J. Sackett, "Another Cross-Fertilization Joke," Western Folklore , Vol. 27, No. 1 (Jan., 1968), pp. 50-51
    • And this one's a cross between a swan and a goose, and we call him a swoose.
  • * 2000 Grace Marmor Spruch, Squirrels at My Window: Life With a Remarkable Gang of Urban Squirrels , Big Earth Publishing, p22
    • I had been the mistress of fourteen turtles over a number of years, and I could boast having been bitten by, along with the standard animals, a horse, a swoose , and a camel.
  • (informal) A person or thing sharing the characteristics of two otherwise separate groups; a hybrid (also see Swoose)
  • * 1970 James J. Zigerell, "The Community College in Search of an Identity," The Journal of Higher Education , Vol. 41, No. 9 (Dec., 1970), pp. 701-712
    • The associate in arts or A.A. degree, another "swoose ," has quickly established itself as the community college degree in a degree-obsessed nation.
  • * 1979 "A History of Cancer Control in the United States, 1946-1971: Appendixes," U.S. National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Control and Rehabilitation, p98
    • Well by the time all the cooks in that broth got through with it, by the time it emerged from the Congress, it was a "swoose'." It was not swan and it was not goose, it was a "'''swoose'''." It was a "' swoose " to its dying day, which hasn't quite arrived yet, but its [sic] imminent.
  • * 2000 Claire Cloninger, Karla Worley, When the Glass Slipper Doesn't Fit, New Hope Publishers
    • But Mom describes my life that year pretty accurately when she says that I had become a “swoose ”- that is to say, not a swan and not a goose.
  • * 2007 Susan Kelly, Now You Know, Pegasus Books, p229
    • "John calls teenagers 'sweese.' " "What?" "Neither swans nor geese."
  • (slang) A stupid person (also see goose)
  • * 1920 5 September, Wisconsin State Journal
    • Much public interest is evinced in these queer birds and nowadays when an ill-tempered husband rouses his wife to the point of retaliation, she gives vent to her feelings in the culminating insult: “You swoose !”
  • * 1948 27 March, Sid Sidenberg, "A Pitchman's Individualism Works Against Organization," The Billboard, p144.
    • There would be but one result and that is the passers-by would regard him as just another one of those “swooses ” standing on a box making nothingness noises they had been so accustomed to seeing and hearing.