goog
See also: GOOG
English
Etymology
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
- (UK) IPA(key): /ɡuːɡ/, /ɡʊɡ/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -uːɡ, -ʊɡ
Noun
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
References
- Eric Partridge (1984) “goog”, in Paul Beale, editor, A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English […] , 8th edition, New York: Macmillan, page 299
Manx
Etymology
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Mutation
| Manx mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| goog | ghoog | ngoog |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
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