Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A stubble-goose; hence, a fat goose—that is, one ready to kill in harvest-time.
- n. An entertainment given by an apprentice to his fellow-workmen, of which the goose was the crowning dish; hence, in recent times, a printers' annual dinner, the funds for which are collected by stewards regularly appointed by “the chapel.”
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Obs. or Prov. Eng. A stubble goose.
- n. engraving An annual feast of the persons employed in a printing office.
Examples
“The Rev. Skeat's reply was suitably abject at the outset, but, as might be expected, notwithstanding a direct apology, he could not resist commenting on the entirely irrelevant matter of the origin of wayz-goose while attempting to turn the tables on his critic by painting himself as the put-upon, absentminded professor, struggling in his tiny cell against overwhelming numbers of books and the obligations that attend them:”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘wayz-goose’.
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Gifts I do not wish to receive
single glove, single sock, rubber chainsaw, subscription to i..., submarine screen ..., rubber chicken soup, swine flu, burnt offering, stage whisper, stone treadmill, 22-volume paperba..., tortoiseshell win... and 61 more...
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Theres a word for that?
people are too specific
spacefaring, sett, koumiss, epitaph, hymenium, esprit de l'escalier, tachophobia, mise en place, quoin, podfading, tower of strength, cantatrice and 9 more...
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[Open] Yes, it really is a word.
Bona fide words that appear misspelled or made-up. See also “Correctly-spelled words that look like misspellings of other words”.
resplendishant, apprehensible, splendent, splendiferous, magnifical, queem, ostentiferous, squiz, researchful, snaffle, blench, debulition and 22 more...
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Wordnik Words
Words that appear on the home page of Wordnik.
abaci, cabooleat, endomorphic, warfinger, varna, tautological, quesadillia, hub, oceanography, ken, ignimbrite, galactagogue and 110 more...
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Field Mass
for the same
fanon, armet, wether, filibuster, shadoof, shabrack, mai, sainfoin, sand-crack, panoply, guerdon, flunky and 233 more...
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To Learn
I need to learn and/or go over these words someday.
saccharine, chalumeau, elephantine, cerograph, tautology, galactagogue, woundwort, betony, sagination, endomorph, immiscible, kin and 17 more...
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Found on the front page of Wordnik
I tell you, there's some pretty awesome stuff there that I want to remember.
vraic, wayz-goose, ombrophobous, tapsalteerie, wharfinger, saltigrade, addax, spooniness, calibogus, ignimbrite, obnubilation, iconomachy and 14 more...
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milosrdenstvi Nominated for woty09. Dec 26, 2009
yarb Also wayzgoose. Nov 24, 2009
milosrdenstvi I think this wins, for me at least, "Most Interesting & Eye-catching Front Page Word." Nov 24, 2009