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WAYZGOOSE

Specialty Definition: WAYZGOOSE

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Literature

Wayzgoose An entertainment given to journeymen, or provided by the journeymen themselves. It is mainly a printers' affair, which literary men and commercial staffs may attend by invitation or sufferance. The word wayz means a "bûndle of straw," and wayzgoose a "stubble goose," properly the crowning dish of the entertainment. The Dutch wassen means "to wax fat." The Latin anser sigatum. (See Beanfeast, Harvest Goose .)
"In the midlands and north of England, every newspaper has its wayzgoose."- The Pall Mall Gazette, June 26th, 1894. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: WAYZGOOSE

Language Translations for "WAYZGOOSE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Vietnamese 

  

cuộc liên hoan hằng năm của nhà in. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: WAYZGOOSE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-g-o-o-s-w-y-z"

-3 letters: azygos, gazoos, goosey, wazoos, zygose.

-4 letters: gawsy, gazes, gazoo, gooey, goose, goosy, oozes, sooey, swage, wages, wazoo, woozy, yogas, yowes, zoeas.

-5 letters: ages, awes, ayes, easy, egos, eyas, gaes, gays, gaze, goas, goes, goos, goys, ooze, oozy, owes, owse, oyes, oyez, sage, sago, sagy, sego, soya, swag, sway, waes, wage, wags, ways, woes.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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1. Translations: Modern
2. Anagrams
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