Sekirov Dictionary

goose

/ɡuːs/

noun 7
verb 5
forms 4
phrases 4

noun7

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a large bird that eats grass, swims, flies and walks on land, and is bigger than a duck
- There is a flock of geese on the pond.
A female goose.
The flesh of the goose used as food.
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(slang) A silly person.
- I'm sorry for you, but you're such a goose. — 1906
(historical) 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.
(slang, old-fashioned) A young woman or girlfriend.
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(no longer used) A tailor's iron, heated in live coals or embers, used to press fabrics.
- Come in, tailor. Here you may roast your goose. — 1606

verb5

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(slang) To sharply poke or pinch the buttocks, or prod between the buttocks (of a person).
- Here are the three strange men have exposed themselves to me, the two obscene phone callers, the time I was goosed by an employer. — 1991
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(slang) To stimulate; to spur.
- Almost everyone in McKay’s impossibly starry cast feels like they’re jumping into the SNL host role, game for some light comedic lifting while waiting for the pros to show up and goose the laughs. — 2021
(slang) To gently accelerate (a vehicle); to give repeated, small taps on the accelerator of (a vehicle); to feather the throttle of (a vehicle).
(slang) To hiss (a performer) off the stage.
(UK, slang) Of private-hire taxi drivers, to pick up a passenger who has not booked a cab, in violation of UK licensing conditions.

forms

goosed · goosing · gooses · geese

Phrases with goose

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