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Definition: Goosey |
GooseyAdjective1. (informal) having or revealing stupidity; "ridiculous anserine behavior"; "a dopey answer"; "a dopey kid"; "some fool idea about rewriting authors' books". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "goosey" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references) |
Synonyms: GooseySynonyms: anserine (adj), dopey (adj), dopy (adj), fool(a) (adj), foolish (adj), gooselike (adj), goosy (adj). (additional references) |
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Books | |
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| "Goosey goosey gander" by Liz Allen Commentary: "Goose in grass." |
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| "Goosey" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Goosey" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "goosey" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Goosey | Last name | 130 | 56,993 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
goosey | 5 |
gander goosey | 3 |
goosey loosey | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "goosey"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Budalla (anserine, anserous, asinine, ass, blunderhead, booby, brainless, cabbage-head, chuckle-head, clod, cloddish, clod-poll, cockeyed, daft, dense, Dick, dim witted, dimwit, dumb, dumbbell, fathead, fool, gaby, gaga, goof, goofy, goon, gowk, half wit, idiot, idle-headed, imbecile, jobbernowl, jolterhead, josser, juggins, loon, mindless, moke, muff, mutton head, mutton-headed, nerd, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, nut, owl, pin head, pumpkin-head, sheep's head, silly, slow witted, softhead, soft-headed, softy, spoony, stupid, tomfool, tom-noddy, witless). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Настръхнал, Изплашен. (various references) | |
Czech | Husí. (various references) | |
Hungarian | libácska (goosey-gander, goosey-goosey), oktondi ember, liba (anserine, geese, goose, goosey-gander, goosey-goosey), gúnár (gander, goosey-gander, goosey-goosey). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ooseygay.(various references) | |
Romanian | Stupid (doltish, dull, dull-witted, foolish, foolishly, idiotic, idiotical, idle, inane, inept, insipid, mindless, senseless, silly, stupid, stupidly, wooden-headed), Prost (ass, bad, badly, beef-witted, blinkard, blockhead, blunt, booby, calf, cheap, clumsy, cock eyed, common, dead, dolt, doltish, donkey, dull, dullard, dumb, dunce, dunderhead, flat, fool, foolish, good for nothing, goof, goon, goose, gull, harmful, idiot, idiotish, inhospitable, lousy, lubber-head, miserable, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, nitwitted, noddy, noodle, numskull, numskulled, oaf, oafish, pin head, poor, poorly, silly, simple, simpleton, snipe, soft, soft-headed, sorry, spoony, stupid, thoughtless, unfavorable, unfavourable, wretched, zombie), Nating (goof), De Gâscã. (various references) | |
Russian | Глупышка, Глупый (Judy). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | guskast, gušče (gosling). (various references) | |
Swedish | Gås-. (various references) | |
Turkish | Kaz Kafalı Kimse, Aptal Tip. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người ngốc nghếch (cabbage-head, dunderhead, half-wit, jolterhead, nincompoop, numbskull, numskull, rattle-brain), người khờ dại (babe, blunderhead, boob, fool, gaby, greenhorn, half-wit, imbecile, juggins, nincompoop, rattle-brain, scapegrace, sheep's-head, silly, spooney, spoony). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Goosey" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gelsey, Geobey, Gissey, glosey, Godey, goey, Goofey, Goosen, gooshy, Gorsley, Gosein, Ogrosky, Woosey. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "goosey" (pronounced guw"sē) |
| 3 | -uw" s ē | juicy. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-o-o-s-y" | |
-1 letter: gooey, goose, goosy, sooey. | |
-2 letters: egos, goes, goos, goys, oyes, sego. | |
-3 letters: ego, gey, goo, gos, goy, oes, ose, seg, soy, yes. | |
-4 letters: es, go, oe, os, oy, so, ye, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-o-o-s-y" | |
+1 letter: boogeys, gooneys. | |
+2 letters: geognosy, goodbyes, serology, sexology. | |
+3 letters: gonocytes, gooeyness, gyroscope, hypogeous, logotypes, museology, myologies, osteology, semiology, zygospore. | |
+4 letters: bryologies, cytologies, escapology, gooseberry, gorgeously, gynophores, gyroscopes, hologynies, logotypies, longsomely, monogynies, mycologies, polygonies, psephology, pyrologies, seismology, selenology, semeiology, speleology, stereology, synecology, typologies, zygospores, zymologies. | |
+5 letters: cosmetology, cryosurgeon, eschatology, etymologies, etymologise, etymologist, exogenously, gooeynesses, homozygoses, homozygotes, hydrogenous, hydrologies, hymnologies, karyologies, kinesiology, myelogenous, mythologers, mythologies, oxygenators, phagocytose, phraseology, phycologies, semasiology, soteriology, symbologies, troglodytes. | |
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