goog
See also: GOOG
English edit
Etymology edit
Irish and Scottish Gaelic gog / gug, cf. googie, from gugaí / gogaí (“sound made by chickens, baby name for chicken, baby name for egg" (i.e. gug-gug-gugaí)”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
goog (plural googs)
- (Australia, slang) An egg.
- 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber & Faber, published 2003, page 53:
- I always supposed he was called Goog because the tiny flattened ears did nothing to interrupt the goog-like sweep from crown to jaw.
- 2016, J. D. Barrett, The Secret Recipe for Second Chances:
- From its modest beginnings in one's diet as a boiled goog with toast soldiers, to the heady heights of the soufflé, the egg is the soul of French and English cuisine.
Derived terms edit
References edit
- Eric Partridge (1984), “goog”, in Paul Beale, editor, A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English […] , 8th edition, New York: Macmillan, page 299
Anagrams edit
Manx edit
Etymology edit
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Noun edit
goog f (genitive singular goog, plural googyn)
Synonyms edit
Mutation edit
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
goog | ghoog | ngoog |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |