"swoose" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "Blend of swan + goose",
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          "ref": "1920 July 13, Daily Mail",
          "text": "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”.",
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          "ref": "1928 John C. Phillips, \"Another \"Swoose\" or Swan × Goose Hybrid,\" The Auk, Vol. 45, No. 1 (Jan., 1928), pp. 39-40",
          "text": "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.”"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1968 Jan, Samuel J. Sackett, “Another Cross-Fertilization Joke”, in Western Folklore, volume 27, number 1, pages 50–51",
          "text": "And this one's a cross between a swan and a goose, and we call him a swoose.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Grace Marmor Spruch, Squirrels at My Window: Life With a Remarkable Gang of Urban Squirrels, Big Earth Publishing, page 22",
          "text": "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.",
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        "(informal) An animal cross between a swan and a goose, especially one produced from a male swan and a female goose."
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          "ref": "1970 Dec, James J. Zigerell, “The Community College in Search of an Identity”, in The Journal of Higher Education, volume 41, number 9, pages 701–712",
          "text": "The associate in arts or A.A. degree, another \"swoose,\" has quickly established itself as the community college degree in a degree-obsessed nation.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "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",
          "text": "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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Claire Cloninger, Karla Worley, When the Glass Slipper Doesn't Fit, New Hope Publishers",
          "text": "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.",
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        {
          "ref": "2007, Susan Kelly, Now You Know, Pegasus Books, page 229",
          "text": "\"John calls teenagers 'sweese.'\" \"What?\" \"Neither swans nor geese.\"",
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        "(informal) A person or thing sharing the characteristics of two otherwise separate groups; a hybrid (also see Swoose)"
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          "ref": "1920 September 5, Wisconsin State Journal",
          "text": "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!”",
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        {
          "ref": "1948 March 27, Sid Sidenberg, “A Pitchman's Individualism Works Against Organization”, in The Billboard, page 144",
          "text": "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.",
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        "A stupid person."
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        "(slang) A stupid person."
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          "ref": "1920 July 13, Daily Mail",
          "text": "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”.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        {
          "ref": "1928 John C. Phillips, \"Another \"Swoose\" or Swan × Goose Hybrid,\" The Auk, Vol. 45, No. 1 (Jan., 1928), pp. 39-40",
          "text": "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.”"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1968 Jan, Samuel J. Sackett, “Another Cross-Fertilization Joke”, in Western Folklore, volume 27, number 1, pages 50–51",
          "text": "And this one's a cross between a swan and a goose, and we call him a swoose.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Grace Marmor Spruch, Squirrels at My Window: Life With a Remarkable Gang of Urban Squirrels, Big Earth Publishing, page 22",
          "text": "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.",
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        "(informal) An animal cross between a swan and a goose, especially one produced from a male swan and a female goose."
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          "ref": "1970 Dec, James J. Zigerell, “The Community College in Search of an Identity”, in The Journal of Higher Education, volume 41, number 9, pages 701–712",
          "text": "The associate in arts or A.A. degree, another \"swoose,\" has quickly established itself as the community college degree in a degree-obsessed nation.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "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",
          "text": "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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Claire Cloninger, Karla Worley, When the Glass Slipper Doesn't Fit, New Hope Publishers",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Susan Kelly, Now You Know, Pegasus Books, page 229",
          "text": "\"John calls teenagers 'sweese.'\" \"What?\" \"Neither swans nor geese.\"",
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        }
      ],
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        "A person or thing sharing the characteristics of two otherwise separate groups; a hybrid (also see Swoose)"
      ],
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          "ref": "1920 September 5, Wisconsin State Journal",
          "text": "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!”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1948 March 27, Sid Sidenberg, “A Pitchman's Individualism Works Against Organization”, in The Billboard, page 144",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "A stupid person."
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        "(slang) A stupid person."
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