Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A stubble-goose; hence, a fat goose—that is, one ready to kill in harvest-time.
- noun 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.”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Obs. or Prov. Eng. A stubble goose.
- noun engraving An annual feast of the persons employed in a printing office.
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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:
milosrdenstvi commented on the word wayz-goose
I think this wins, for me at least, "Most Interesting & Eye-catching Front Page Word."
November 25, 2009
yarb commented on the word wayz-goose
Also wayzgoose.
November 25, 2009
milosrdenstvi commented on the word wayz-goose
Nominated for woty09.
December 27, 2009