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 2003, p. 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

full as a goog

References

goog, entry in 1984, Eric Partridge, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, 2008, page 299.

Anagrams

go-go, gogo

Manx

Etymology

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Noun

goog f (genitive singular goog, plural googyn)

toy

Synonyms

didee
gaih

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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