goose – English noun declension

English noun forms of goose

Noun: goose
Singulargoose
Pluralgeese

Sample Sentences

  • There is a flock of geese on the pond.
  • The goose, reputed to possess high generative power, was sacred to Priapus. [1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 198:]
  • A group of geese is called a gaggle. [2019 June 6, “A gaggle, a confusion and a conspiracy - bizarre animal collective group names”, in BBC:]
  • 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. [1902, Lewis Wright, “Geese and Swans”, in The New Book of Poultry […], London; […]: Cassell and Company, Limited, page 560, column 1:]
  • 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. [1843, Charles Dickens, “Stave 3: The Second of the Three Spirits”, in A Christmas Carol:]
  • I'm sorry for you, but you're such a goose. [1906, Langdon Mitchell, “The New York Idea”, in John Gassner, editor, Best Plays of the Early American Theatre, 1787-1911, published 2000, →ISBN, page 430:]
  • Have you stopped to think, you gooses, that Andy might not wish you to give it away? [1994, Barbara Benedict, Love and Honor, New York, N.Y.: Jove Books, →ISBN, page 65:]
  • You gooses. I didn’t accept his proposal. Mrs Plackett did. She did because she would. Don’t you see? [2014, Julie Berry, The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place, New York, N.Y.: Roaring Brook Press, Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings Limited Partnership, →ISBN:]
  • Surely I needn’t explain to you gooses that none of you, not even you, Caro, have the sort of dowry or connections or the appeal that such a match would require. [2019, Julia London, The Princess Plan, HQN Books, →ISBN:]
  • Come in, tailor. Here you may roast your goose. [c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:]

Nouns inflected like goose

goose,

Etymology

1. PIE word
2. *ǵʰh₂éns
3. From Middle English goos, gos, from Old English gōs, from Proto-West Germanic *gans, from Proto-Germanic *gans, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns.
4. Cognates
5. 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).
6. * The tailor's iron is so called from the likeness of the handle to the neck of a goose. See: Old English Nouns 'gōs', Dutch Nouns 'gans', German Nouns 'Gans', Icelandic Nouns 'gæs', Irish Nouns 'gé', Latin Nouns 'ānser', Latvian Nouns 'zoss', Russian Nouns 'гусь', Ancient Greek Nouns 'χήν'.

Verbs referencing "goose"

German Nouns Gans, Latin Nouns anser, Spanish Nouns ganso, Danish Nouns gås, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns gås, Swedish Nouns gås, Russian Nouns гусь, Faroese Nouns gás, Old Norse Nouns gás, Ancient Greek Nouns χήν, English Nouns cargoose.