goose

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ɡuːs/|/ɡʉ͡ws/    美 /ɡus/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of various grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae, which have feathers and webbed feet and are capable of flying, swimming, and walking on land, and which are generally bigger than ducks. countable,uncountable
    — There is a flock of geese on the pond.
  2. A female goose. countable,uncountable
    — Ganders and geese are at their best for stock from two to ten years old. They live to a great age—it is stated to thirty or more years—but after ten years they cannot be reckoned upon as reliable assets on a farm. Two years old is the best age to mate them, making up pens of a gander and two or three geese at the New Year. It is difficult sometimes to distinguish ganders from geese. A practical man is, however, rarely mistaken.
  3. The flesh of the goose used as food. uncountable
    — Mrs. Cratchit made the gravy (ready beforehand in a little saucepan) hissing hot; Master Peter mashed the potatoes with incredible vigour; Miss Belinda sweetened up the apple-sauce; Martha dusted the hot plates; Bob took Tiny Tim beside him in a tiny corner at the table; the two young Cratchits set chairs for everybody, not forgetting themselves, and mounting guard upon their posts, crammed spoons into their mouths, lest they should shriek for goose before their turn came to be helped.
  4. A silly person. countable,slang,uncountable
    — I'm sorry for you, but you're such a goose.
  5. A tailor's iron, heated in live coals or embers, used to press fabrics. archaic,countable,uncountable
    — Come in, tailor. Here you may roast your goose.
  6. A young woman or girlfriend. South-Africa,countable,dated,slang,uncountable
  7. 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. historical,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To sharply poke or pinch the buttocks, or prod between the buttocks (of a person). slang,transitive
    — She greeted Miss Lonelyhearts, then took hold of her husband and shook the breath out of him. When he was quiet, she dragged him into their apartment. Miss Lonelyhearts followed and as he passed her in the dark foyer, she goosed him and laughed.
  2. To stimulate; to spur. slang,transitive
    — 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.
  3. To gently accelerate (a vehicle); to give repeated, small taps on the accelerator of (a vehicle); to feather the throttle of (a vehicle). slang,transitive
  4. Of private-hire taxi drivers, to pick up a passenger who has not booked a cab, in violation of UK licensing conditions. UK,slang
  5. To hiss (a performer) off the stage. slang,transitive

词形变化

geese plural gooses present,singular,third-person goosing participle,present goosed participle,past goosed past

词汇关系

上位词
waterfowl
下位词
gander gosling brant
衍生词
ashy-headed goose a wild goose never laid a tame egg bar-headed goose barnacle goose bean goose black goose blue goose blue-winged goose brand goose brant goose brent goose cackle like a goose cackling goose Canada goose Canadian goose Cape Barren goose channel goose China goose Chinese goose Christmas goose colonial goose common snow goose cook somebody’s goose cook someone's goose cotton pygmy goose deep goose foot domestic goose duck, duck, goose dunter goose dwarf goose Egyptian goose eider goose embergoose ember-goose Emden goose emmer-goose fen goose game of the goose gloomy goose golden goose gooducken goosander goose barnacle gooseberry gooseberrying gooseberryish gooseberrylike goosebumped goose bump goose-bump goosebump goosecap goose club Goose Creek goosedown goose-drownder goose-drowner goose egg goosefish goosefleshed goose-flesher gooseflesh goose flesh goosefleshy goosefoot goose foot goose game goosegob goosegog goosegrass goose-grass goose grass goose grease Goose Green gooseherd Goose Hill Goosehill goosehood goose iron goose is cooked gooseish goose-ish Goose Lake gooseless gooselike goose-like gooseling goosely gooseneck gooseneck barnacle goosenecked goose-pen goosepimple goose pimple goosepimply goosequill gooser goose-rumped goosery gooses goose saw goose's foot gooseskin goose skin goosestep goose-step goose step goose-stepper goosestepper goosetongue goose tongue goose up Goose Village gooseweed goosewing goose wing goose-wing goosey Goosey Goosey Gander Goosey Night goosie goosish goosy Gosling gray goose graylag goose greater snow goose greater white-fronted goose green goose Greenland snow goose green pygmy goose Greenwich goose grey goose greylag goose guck gwan harvest goose Hawaiian goose imber-goose Joe-the-goose Joe the goose kelp goose kill the goose that lays the golden eggs laughing goose lesser snow goose lesser white-fronted goose like grease through a goose like shit through a goose loose as a goose loosey goosey loosey-goosey Magellan goose magpie goose magpie-goose Malagasy sheldgoose * Michigoose Mother Carey's goose Mother Goose New Zealand goose Nile goose one's goose is cooked Orinoco goose peagoose pig goose pink-footed bean goose pink-footed goose poltergoose poor man's goose pygmy goose rat-goose red-breasted goose red goose road-goose rock goose rood goose Ross’s goose Ross’s snow goose rot-goose ruddy-headed goose sauce for the goose say boo to a goose say bo to a goose sea goose sheldgoose shoe-goose silly goose snow goose solan goose Solent goose someone's goose is cooked sound on the goose spur-winged goose spurwing goose stubble goose superficial goose foot swan goose swoose tailor's goose the old woman is plucking her goose tree goose tundra bean goose upland goose ware goose what's good for the goose is good for the gander what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander white-fronted goose white goose Whitley goose wild goose wild-goose chase wild goose chase
相关词
dove pigeon squab duck duckling eider swan swanling anserine

词源

词源 1
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, 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.
词源 2
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, 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.
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