goose:
(plural – ‘geese’; pronunciation: the letter ‘g’ in this word rhymes with the letter ‘g’ in the word “garden” — for the right pronunciation, please click here)
a silly person; an incompetent person;
a prostitute (a woman who has sex with others for money),
e.g.
Mike is such a goose that he cannot do any simple thing without making a big fuss.
After she lost her job, Susan, like many of her colleagues, was forced to be a goose to earn money to support her family.
Any political party with silly geese as its members is bound to lose public support whatever gimmick it may play!
For an article about a person being a goose that shows us how we come across this word in our daily browsing, please click here and for a blog post that shows us how even the presidents are called ‘silly geese’, please click here & please click here.
the woman giving the man a goose
More common meanings are (a) a large duck-like water bird, the female of such bird and the meat of this bird eaten as food (b) <as a verb> to pinch or poke between somebody else’s buttocks (back part) for fun; (c) the rare usage of this word with its plural ‘gooses’ is a tailor’s pressing iron with a long handle; and the pinches or pokes between a person’s buttocks (back part) given by somebody else for fun.
Note: ‘Goose’, always with a capital ‘G’, is found in names of people, e.g. Bridget Goose, William Goose, David Goose, etc. For an article that explains the origins of this word as a surname, please click here. For an blog post about a gentleman called ‘Goose’, please click here.
