goose

en-verb

goose (third-person singular simple present gooses, present participle goosing, simple past and past participle goosed)

gooses (present singular third-person)
goosing (participle present)
goosed (participle past)
goosed (past)

PIE word
 *ǵʰh₂éns
From Middle English goos, gos, from Old English gōs, from Proto-West Germanic *gans, from Proto-Germanic *gans, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns.
Cognates:
Compare West Frisian goes, North Frisian göis (also Fering-Öömrang dialect North Frisian gus; Sölring dialect North Frisian Guus; Heligoland dialect North Frisian gus), Low German Goos, Low German Gans, Dutch gans, German Gans, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian gås, Icelandic gæs, Irish gé, Latin ānser, Latvian zùoss, Russian гусь (gusʹ), Albanian gatë, Ancient Greek χήν (khḗn), Avestan 𐬰𐬁 (zā), Sanskrit हंस (haṃsá).
* The tailor's iron is so called from the likeness of the handle to the neck of a goose.

(slang, UK) Of private-hire taxi drivers, to pick up a passenger who has not booked a cab, in violation of UK licensing conditions.


greylag goose

/ˌɡɹeɪlæɡ ˈɡuːs/

Anser anser, a goose that breads in northern Eurasia and winters in semitropical Asia.

tó wónaanídę́ę́ʼ naalʼeełítsoh łibáhígíí


laughing goose

Anser albifrons
Anser albifrons#Translingual

The European white-fronted goose (Anser albifrons).


gosling

→ Irish: góislín

From Late Middle English goslyng (“gosling”), alteration (due to Middle English goos (“goose”)) of earlier gesling (“gosling”), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse gæsling, géslingr (“gosling”), from gás (“goose”) + -lingr (“-ling”), equivalent to goose + -ling. Cognate with Danish gæsling (“gosling”), Swedish gässling (“gosling”). Compare also Low German gossel, gössel (“gosling”), German Gänslein (“gosling”).

These Aments (we must no longer call them catkins) are composed both of male and female flowers; what Henry calls goslings in spring are the Aments of the willow tree ; his green goslings are female Aments , and , when mature , have the appearance of little tufts of wool, which appearance is caused by the downy material that crowns their feeds;

1797, Botanical Dialogues, Between Hortensia and Her Four Children, page 8:

When the oak puts on his goslings grey 'Tis time to sow barley night or day.

1893, “Tree Proverbs”, in The Journal of Education, volume 37, page 170:

The common Sallow or Goat Willow (Salix caprea) forms a small bush in rough places and the hollows left by old gravel-pits. It produces the “goslings” which children are fond of gathering at Easter .

1901, Edward North Buxton, Epping Forest, page 116:

In the afternoon: cut back the crack willow around the pool; the fluffy flowers fall on the water. Locally, the flowers are known as 'goslings'. Water. It has no motion of its own; it is the mechanic betrayer of other forces. the breeze gently drifts the goslings to the far shore.

2018, John Lewis-Stempel, The Wood: The Life & Times of Cockshutt Wood:

(dated) A catkin on willows, nut trees, and pines.


gander

From Middle English gandre, from Old English gandra, ganra (“gander”), from Proto-West Germanic *ganʀō, from Proto-Germanic *ganzô (“gander”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns (“goose”).
Cognates
Cognate with Dutch gander (“gander”), Low German Gander, Ganner (“gander”), dialectal German Gandert (“gander”), German Ganter (“gander”), Norwegian gasse (“gander”), Icelandic gassi (“gander”). Compare also Lithuanian gañdras (“stork”). Related to goose, gannet.

what's good for the goose is good for the gander

what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander


brant

From New Latin/Medieval Latin Branta, latinized form of Old Norse brandgás (“sheldrake”), literally "burnt (black) goose," from Proto-Germanic *brandaz (“burning”) + *gans (“goose”).

I have given you roe and reindeer, / I have given you brant and beaver, / Filled the marshes full of wild-fowl, / Filled the rivers full of fishes; / Why then are you not contented? / Why then will you hunt each other?

1855, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Book I”, in The Song of Hiawatha:

Branta bernicla
Branta bernicla#Translingual

(Canada, US) Any of several wild geese, of the genus Branta, that breed in the Arctic, but especially the brent goose, Branta bernicla.


rout

en-noun

rout (countable and uncountable, plural routs)

The noun is derived from Middle English rout, route (“group of people associated with one another, company; entourage, retinue; army; group of soldiers; group of pirates; large number of people, crowd; throng; group of disreputable people, mob; riot; group of animals; group of objects; proper condition or manner”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman route, rute, Middle French rote, route, Old French rote, route, rute (“group of people, company; group of armed people; group of criminals; group of cattle”) (modern French route (obsolete)), from Latin rupta (compare Late Latin ruta, rutta (“group of marauders; riot; unlawful assembly”)), the feminine of ruptus (“broken; burst, ruptured”), the perfect passive participle of rumpō (“to break, burst, rupture, tear; to force open; (figurative) to annul; to destroy; to interrupt”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *Hrewp- (“to break; to tear (up)”). The English word is a doublet of route.
The verb is derived from Middle English routen (“to assemble, congregate; of animals: to herd together; to regroup, make a stand against; to be riotous, to riot”) [and other forms], from rout, route (noun); see above.

nb...

rote, rought, roughte, rouht, routh, routhte, routt, routte, rouwte, rouʒt, rouʒte, rovte, rowt, rowte, rowth, rowthte, rowtt, rowtte, rowȝt, ruth, rutte, (West Midlands) roite, (Northern England) rutte, ruth, (chiefly Northern England, early Middle English) rut, rute

nb...

route, rowte, (Northern England) rute, (Late Middle English) rouȝt

(countable, archaic) A group of animals, especially one which is lively or unruly, or made up of wild animals such as wolves; a flock, a herd, a pack.


rout

en-verb

rout (third-person singular simple present routs, present participle routing, simple past and past participle routed)

routs (present singular third-person)
routing (participle present)
routed (participle past)
routed (past)

A variant of wrout, itself a variant of wroot (“to search or root in the ground”) (obsolete), from Middle English wroten (“to search or root in the ground; of a person: to dig earth; of a worm: to slither, wriggle; to corrode; of a worm: to irritate by biting the skin; to destroy (a fortification) by digging or mining”) [and other forms] (whence root), from Old English wrōtan (“to root up or rummage with the snout”). from Proto-West Germanic *wrōtan, from Proto-Germanic *wrōtaną (“to dig with the nose or snout, to root”); further etymology uncertain, perhaps related to Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds (“a root”), cf. English wort, English root .

nb...

vrote, wroote, wrot, wrote, wrothe, wrotyn, (Scotland) wrotte

inh

Nevertheless, he was always stimulated by Winsett, and whenever he caught sight of the journalist's lean bearded face and melancholy eyes he would rout him out of his corner and carry him off for a long talk.

1920, Edith Wharton, chapter XIV, in The Age of Innocence, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, book I, page 122:

(transitive, chiefly US) Usually followed by from: to compel (someone) to leave a place; specifically (usually followed by out or up), to cause (someone) to get out of bed.


rout

Possibly a variant of root (“to dig or pull out by the roots; to abolish, exterminate, root out”), from Middle English wroten; see further at etymology 5. Some recent uses are difficult to tell apart from rout (“of an animal, especially a pig: to search (for something) in the ground with the snout; to search for and find (something)”).

(transitive) Usually followed by out or up: to dig or pull up (a plant) by the roots; to extirpate, to uproot.

(transitive, figurative) Usually followed by out: to find and eradicate (something harmful or undesirable); to root out.


wild goose

any of many species of wildlife goose, such as the greylag goose or the Canada goose, whose wedge fly in a wedge or V form, or cuneiform, as opposed to the domesticated goose that would not fly.


nene

Borrowed from Hawaiian nēnē, which is imitative of the bird’s call.

Ohelo Vaccinium reticulatum (and V. peleanum) and kukaenene Coprosma ernodeoides […] are the most important berries in the Nenes’ diet, and it is probably from such juicy fruit that much of their water intake comes.

1980, Janet Kear, A. J. Berger, “The Hawaiian Goose or Nene”, in The Hawaiian Goose: An Experiment in Conservation, Calton, Staffordshire: T. & A. D. Poyser, →ISBN; reprinted London: T. & A. D. Poyser, 2010, →ISBN, page 42:

Today, both wild and domestic dogs are a serious threat to Hawai‘i's native wildlife. The dogs prey on both seabirds and open country birds, especially the Hawaiian goose, nēnē. However, feral dogs aren't all bad, because one of their favorite foods is rats.

1991, Susan Scott, Plants and Animals of Hawai‘i, Honolulu, Hi.: Bess Press, →ISBN, page 123:

Scientists think the nēnē descended from Canada geese that landed on Hawai‘i long before humans arrived. As they survived on the isolated islands for generation after generation, the geese gradually changed, becoming a new species. Today's nēnē, unlike its water-loving ancestor, is a land bird.

1993, Marion Coste, Nēnē (Kolowalu Book), Honolulu, Hi.: University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, page 20:

The nene is a handsome bird that almost became extinct in the wild but was reintroduced successfully from ones bred in captivity.

2004, Richard [Alan] Fortey, The Earth: An Intimate History, London: HarperCollins, →ISBN; republished London: Folio Society, 2011, →OCLC, page 37:

Among the iconic flora and fauna found here are […] the endangered nene (Hawaiian goose). After almost going extinct, nene were reintroduced into the national park in 1962 when Boy Scouts carried geese that had been raised in captivity down into Haleakala volcano in their backpacks.

2011, Sara Benson, “Haleakala National Park”, in Maui: Must-do Hikes for Everyone (Top Trails), Birmingham, Ala.: Wilderness Press, →ISBN, page 197:

Branta sandvicensis
Branta sandvicensis#Translingual

The Hawaiian goose, Branta sandvicensis, which was designated the state bird of Hawaii in 1957.

Kéyah Ałkééʼ Naaznilgo Dah Ndaaʼeełídę́ę́ʼ naalʼeełítsoh noodǫ́zígíí


whitehead

A species of passerine bird, endemic to New Zealand (Mohoua albicilla)


anserine

en-adj

anserine (comparative more anserine, superlative most anserine)

more anserine (comparative)
most anserine (superlative)

From Latin anserīnus, from anser (“goose”).

Pertaining to a goose or geese; gooselike.

anserine skin

(medicine, obsolete) Exhibiting goose flesh.


anserine

en-noun

anserine (countable and uncountable, plural anserines)

From Latin anser (“goose”) + -ine, after German Anserin.

(biochemistry) A dipeptide compound present in birds and other vertebrates, originally isolated from goose muscle.


Canada goose

Branta canadensis
Branta canadensis#Translingual

ᑭᐦᒋ ᓂᐢᑲ (kihci-niska, literally “great goose”)


barnacle goose

Because this goose nests in the far north, Europeans never saw its chicks, and invented a theory that the goose barnacle is the larval form of the barnacle goose.

Branta leucopsis
Branta leucopsis#Translingual

A black and white species of bird within the family Anatidae from the northern hemisphere, Branta leucopsis.


white-fronted goose

white-fronted goose (plural white-fronted geese)

Named for the patch of white feathers bordering the base of its bill.

A goose that has bright orange legs and mouse-coloured upper wing-coverts, Anser albifrons.


bean goose

They used to be known for grazing in bean-field stubbles in winter.

Anser fabalis
Anser fabalis#Translingual

Any of species Anser fabalis of grey geese, of family Anatidae.


brent goose

The first word is perhaps from branded, meaning brindled.

(British) A small member of the goose family (Anatidae), Branta bernicla.


greylag

From grey (“colour”) + lag (“old name for a goose, derived from the call used to move such animals along”).

Since the war, migrant greylags have virtually deserted the Duddon estuary, so it is a source of great satisfaction that the WAGBI greylags have taken to roosting on the sands in mid-winter, flighting to and from the reserve.

1967, Jeffery G. Harrison, A Wealth of Wildfowl, page 150:

Greylags used to concentrate on British estuaries, eating roots of rushes and sedges, as they do in other parts of their range.

2010, M. Owen, “Greylag Goose”, in Peter Lack, editor, The Atlas of Wintering Birds in Britain and Ireland, page 74:

Earlier, 250 more had flown to Rattray beach, nearly all pinkfeet although I saw four greylags and heard others.

2012, Adam Watson, Ian Francis, Birds in North-East Scotland Then and Now, page 11:

A large grey European goose, Anser anser, with pink legs and dull orange beak.


rood goose

(Southwest Scotland) the barnacle goose.


barnacle

Uncertain, with long-debated origin. From Middle English barnakille, from earlier bernake, bernekke, most likely from Old Northern French bernaque (“barnacle”) (compare French barnache), probably from Medieval Latin barneca (“limpet”), probably from Gaulish (compare Welsh brennig, Irish báirneac), from Proto-Celtic *barinākos, from *barinā (“rock, rocky ground”) (compare Old Irish barenn (“boulder”)), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷr̥H- (“hill, mountain”) + Proto-Celtic *-ākos, from Proto-Indo-European *-kos, *-ḱos; for sense development, compare Ancient Greek λέπας (lépas, “rock”) which gave λεπάς (lepás, “limpet”).
First attestations referred to the goose, with corresponding folklore (q.v.).

der

electrical engineering
electrical engineering

(engineering, slang) In electrical engineering, a change made to a product on the manufacturing floor that was not part of the original product design.

fiksaus

engineering: change made on the manufacturing floor

printed circuit board
printed circuit board

(electronics, slang) On printed circuit boards, a change such as soldering a wire in order to connect two points, or addition such as an added resistor or capacitor, subassembly or daughterboard.

(obsolete, in the plural) An instrument like a pair of pincers, to fix on the nose of a vicious horse while shoeing so as to make it more tractable.

(slang, obsolete) A good job, or snack easily obtained.

herkkupala

slang: good job, or snack easily obtained


cook someone's goose

en-verb

cook someone's goose (third-person singular simple present cooks someone's goose, present participle cooking someone's goose, simple past and past participle cooked someone's goose)

cooks someone's goose (present singular third-person)
cooking someone's goose (participle present)
cooked someone's goose (participle past)
cooked someone's goose (past)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-cook someone's goose.wav

Various folk etymologies have been suggested, but the true etymology remains unknown.

I like this Goose Lake country better than any I've seen east of the Cascade range, and if some mishap don't cook my goose, I hope to give you a good account of it, if not of myself.

1867 September 28, Joseph Wasson, “Colonel [George] Crook’s Campaign”, in Peter Cozzens, editor, Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars, 1865–1890: The Wars for the Pacific Northwest, volume 2, Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, published 2002, →ISBN, part 1 (The Snake-Paiute War and after, 1866–72), page 63:

[W]hen is it reasonable to think that the Americans will be able to put in that immense army of three millions, fully equipped, each man with a hair mattress, a hot-water bottle, a gramophone, and a medicine chest, which they tell us will get to Berlin and ‘cook the goose’ of the Kaiser? [In a letter from F. S. Oliver to his brother.]

[1918 May 2, John Terraine, quoting Frederick Scott Oliver, “The Gambler’s Fling”, in The Great War (Wordsworth Military Library), Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions, published 1997, →ISBN, page 156:

A strange, awkward thought! Had Fleur cooked her own goose by trying to make too sure?

1921 September, John Galsworthy, “The Dark Tune”, in To Let, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, part III, page 284:

"Well," remarked Dobbie succinctly, "that rather cooks his goose, doesn't it?"

1931, Anthony Gilbert [pseudonym; Lucy Beatrice Malleson], chapter 6, in The Case against Andrew Fane, London: W[illiam] Collins Sons & Co., →OCLC; republished London: The Murder Room, 2004, →ISBN, section 1:

"I am afraid Bill [William Joseph Donovan] is rapidly cooking his own goose by lobbying," Dykes recorded on 4 April. "[Walter Bedell] Smith is getting completely fed up with [Donovan]."

1941 April 4, D[aniel] K. R. Crosswell, quoting Vivian Dykes, “Forging the Mold”, in Beetle: The Life of Walter Bedell Smith (American Warriors), Lexington, Ky.: University of Kentucky Press, published 2010, →ISBN, part 3 (The Towering Figure—George C. Marshall), page 254:

Well I don't care if it's a thing or a mammal or a skunk, he can't sleep on our money. I'll cook that mammal's goose!

1943 October, Robert McCloskey, “The Case of the Sensational Scent”, in Homer Price, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, December 1966, →OCLC, page 18:

To express his antipathy, the lawyer manipulates the judicial process, its language and technicalities, to show that if he was formerly unprepared to serve Guillaume the promised feast, he is now eager to help him cook his own goose.

1984, Donald Maddox, “Antipathiquelin and the Rhetoric of Torts”, in Semiotics of Deceit: The Pathelin Era […], Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press; Cranbury, N.J.; London: Associated University Presses, →ISBN, page 95:

One false step can cook your goose for good. Before you know it, there's such a big stink that it's smeared all over the newspapers.

1987, Sholem Aleichem [pseudonym; Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich], “[The Railway Stories] The Man from Buenos Aires”, in Hillel Halkin, transl., Tevye the Dairyman and The Railway Stories (Library of Yiddish Classics), New York, N.Y.: Schocken Books, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Schocken Books, [2008?], →ISBN, page 172:

(idiomatic, informal) To spoil one's plans or hope of success.

kill the goose that lays the golden eggs


graylag

1872, John Cordeaux, Ornithological Notes from North Lincolnshire, Edward Newman (editor), Zoologist: A Popular Miscellany of Natural History, 2nd Series, Volume 7, page 3016,
Wild Geese. — February 29th. Saw a skein of ten wild geese flying a few feet above the Humber this morning : from their size and colour I believe them to have been graylags.

Eventually a few graylags landed; the Professor dug into his bucket, scattered some barley grain about, and started to scribble notes.

1973, Ivan Newton MacCollom, Nancy Lloyd Badore, Exploring Psychology: Introductory Readings, page 405:

With reference to Konrad Lorenz's famous graylags, which assure each other of their solidarity by the display of common aggression against a nonexistent interloper, Burkert defines ritual as “action redirected for demonstration.”

2012, Mikael Aktor, “Negotiating Karma: Penance in the Classical Indian Law Books”, in Ute Hüsken, Frank Neubert, editors, Negotiating Rites, page 24:


wavey

According to one theory, from Cree. An alternative etymology, perhaps a folk etymology, attributes the name to their peculiar, wavy flight.

Chen caerulescens
Chen caerulescens#Translingual

(US, Canada, dialects) The snow goose (Chen caerulescens)


Hawaiian goose

The Hawaiian goose or nene (Branta sandvicensis) is perhaps chiefly celebrated for the great success with which it has been reared in captivity.

2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 82:


speckled-belly

greater white-fronted goose
greater white-fronted goose

The greater white-fronted goose (Anser albifrons)


claik

you might hide with your lass on the top of Ben Nevis and have your bit pleasure there, but ten to one when you got up to go home there'd be Mistress Munro or some claik of her kidney, near sniggering herself daft with delight at your shame.

1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 79:


bernicle

(historical, chiefly in the plural) A form of torture in which the legs were crushed between pieces of wood.


ware goose

So called because it feeds on ware, or seaweed.


swan goose

Anser cygnoides
Anser cygnoides#Translingual

A large migratory goose (Anser cygnoides) belonging to the subfamily Anserinae.


gooseling

I reared her myself—my little white gooseling;

1898, William Canton, A Child's Book of Saints:


Hissian

Accordingly two of the club went out and shortly after returned with a Hissian, a cant word with the soldiers, for a goose.


snow goose

A goose of the species Chen caerulescens, native to North America.


Egyptian goose

Alopochen aegyptiaca
Alopochen aegyptiaca#Translingual

A goose of the species Alopochen aegyptiaca.


Cape Barren goose

en-noun

Cape Barren goose (plural Cape Barren geese)

Another species that seems to have been saved from immediate danger is the curious but handsome Cape Barren goose (Cereopsis novaehollandiae) which survives on islands off the southern coast of Australia.

Cereopsis novaehollandiae
Cereopsis novaehollandiae#Translingual

An Australian species of goose, Cereopsis novaehollandiae.


upland goose

Male upland geese are highly territorial and will battle it out with any intruders.

2000, Michael Bright, Wild South America, BBC Worldwide, published 2000, page 52:

Chloephaga picta
Chloephaga picta#Translingual

A species of sheldgoose, Chloephaga picta, found in temperate grasslands.


greater white-fronted goose

greater-white-fronted goose (plural greater white-fronted geese)

greater-white-fronted goose (canonical)
greater white-fronted geese (plural)


spur-winged goose

spur-winged goose (plural spur-winged geese)

Plectropterus gambensis
Plectropterus gambensis#Translingual

An anatid bird native to sub-Saharan Africa, Plectropterus gambensis.


pink-footed goose

pink-footed goose (plural pink-footed geese)

Anser brachyrhynchus
Anser brachyrhynchus#Translingual

Anser brachyrhynchus, a goose that breeds in Greenland, Iceland, etc.


Emden goose

Named after the town of Emden in Lower Saxony, Germany.

A goose of a domestic breed thought to have its origins around the North Sea region, in the Netherlands and Germany.


pinkfoot

pink-footed goose
pink-footed goose#English


tundra bean goose

tundra bean goose (plural tundra bean geese)

Anser serrirostris
Anser serrirostris#Translingual

Any goose of species Anser serrirostris, that breeds in northern Siberia.


cackling goose

Branta hutchinsii
Branta hutchinsii#Translingual

Branta hutchinsii, a North American bird of the genus Branta of black geese, which contains species with largely black plumage, distinguishing them from the grey Anser species.


red-breasted goose

red-breasted goose (plural red-breasted geese)

Branta ruficollis
Branta ruficollis#Translingual

Branta ruficollis, a species of goose from Eurasia, with a large rust-colored area on its breast and throat.


lesser white-fronted goose

lesser white-fronted goose (plural lesser white-fronted geese)

Anser erythropus
Anser erythropus#Translingual

Anser albifrons
Anser albifrons#Translingual

Anser erythropus, a goose closely related to the larger white-fronted goose (Anser albifrons)


green goose

The Spring is neare when greene geese are a breeding.

c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

My green Goose for this last Entertainment cost but 15s.

A young goose, especially under four years old.


bar-headed goose

bar-headed goose (plural bar-headed geese)

Anser indicus
Anser indicus#Translingual


cotton pygmy goose

cotton pygmy goose (plural cotton pygmy geese)

Nettapus coromandelianus
Nettapus coromandelianus#Translingual

A small perching duck of species Nettapus coromandelianus.


Chinese goose

The domestic goose Anser cygnoides domesticus.


New Zealand goose

New Zealand goose (plural New Zealand geese)

A large bird of the extinct genus Cnemiornis of the family Anatidae, endemic to New Zealand.