goose
verb/ɡuːs/
/ɡuːs/
(informal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they goose | /ɡuːs/ /ɡuːs/ |
| he / she / it gooses | /ˈɡuːsɪz/ /ˈɡuːsɪz/ |
| past simple goosed | /ɡuːst/ /ɡuːst/ |
| past participle goosed | /ɡuːst/ /ɡuːst/ |
| -ing form goosing | /ˈɡuːsɪŋ/ /ˈɡuːsɪŋ/ |
- goose somebody to touch or press somebody’s bottom quickly
- Sam jumped as if he'd been goosed.
- goose something (along/up) (North American English) to make something move or work faster
- The government has done everything possible to goose the economy along.
Word OriginOld English gōs, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch gans and German Gans, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin anser and Greek khēn.
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