Definitions
Etymologies
- Old English - a fat goose suitable for stuffing (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I certainly wrote one on wayzgoose, which is again inquired about this week (8th S.”
“Bedford," but lately discontinued; and there is the Annual Dinner to the printers and the rest given by the firm -- the first of which, under the name of "wayzgoose," took place at the "Highbury Barn Tavern.”
“Carriages were chartered, an enormous quantity of eatables and drinkables provided, and away we went, a regular wayzgoose or bean-feast party.”
The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales
“Everything related to the old-fashioned letter press seemed on the up-and-up except that no one knew the origins of wayzgoose, neither members of the APA nor the dictionaries available to me.”
“Or, even better, perhaps you already know the etymology of wayzgoose.”
“[We have sent Mr. Griffin a copy of the entry for wayzgoose from the OED.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘wayzgoose’.
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phrontistery-w
from phrontistery.info
wack, wadmal, waftage, wafture, wagonette, wagtail, wainage, wainscot, wair, waits, wakerife, waldflute and 282 more...
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Forgotten English 1
jacal, mastaba, lucarne, quoin, triglyph, gargarice, nimgimmer, phrenologize, fleam, eaglestone, toad eater, king's evil and 156 more...
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kewpid's Words
moleskine, araldite, dessicate, cellar door, grotesque, fallacy, vendetta, raindrop, panacea, ethereal, hircus, treppenwitz and 446 more...
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Umbersorrow
Intangible, anthropic.
States of being are listed on oofy.njiju, glark, deplore, afterlithe, tagmass, spuriosity, forkful, chelation, oding, ploat, botnet, quedeship and 477 more...
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Words of Whimsy & Grace
abecedary, addendum, ampersand, anachronism, avuncular, balderdash, barnacle, befuddle, behemoth, bejeebers, blabbermouth, blatherskite and 465 more...
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...:::bella:::...
originally started as an attempt to collect words I found visually and auditorially beautiful, as well as psychically evocative, this has become nothing more than a grab bag of word curiosities, a ...
bergamot, jambalaya, bee's knees, heliotrope, hosanna, gamboge, aureole, filial, madrigal, multilingual, sacrosanct, sojourn and 1072 more...
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karnage's Words
furbelow, farinaceous, fendrake, rhizobium, imbricate, quaquaversal, exstasis, grapheme, scissiparity, apterous, obdurant, omphalos and 135 more...
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Amusing words
interesting words
bonce, furcate, tapioca, tillage, desalinate, garish, litmus, roadhog, azoic, haberdasher, imbroglio, polliwog and 802 more...
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Foyle's Philavery
A selection from Christopher Foyle's book, Foyle's Philavery: A Treasury of Unusual Words, which I was delighted to learn about here.
abligurition, arcifinious, batterfang, bottomry, broggle, brool, cacoepy, cark, dangleation, dasyphyllous, dentiloquy, deglute and 93 more...
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Permutations
There are 17576 different sequences of three letters (26 x 26 x 26). How many of them occur in words? General rules of engagement: mononyms only, lower case preferred to upper case, short preferred...
aaargh, niqaabi, Isaac, raad, baaed, haaf, laager, aah, kamaaina, Naajaat, aak, aalii and 637 more...
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denni's list
comfortable, odd, delightful, even obscure, words
to use and rejoice in.grockle, pinguid, pother, virga, tiddy oggy, booksy, boondoggle, wayzgoose, apologue, clough, cloze, marrowfat and 5 more...
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Miscellany, pt. w
whorl, wacken porphyry, wafture, waggle dance, wayzgoose, wall-eyed, wanwordy, wiseacre, whisterclister, whirlery, whigmaleery, weirdward and 21 more...
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U -- V -- W
ubuntu, umtagati, vitricophobia, uredo, underfong, umbo, ughten, ushabti, vafrous, vinew, virgivitiphobia, voidee and 23 more...
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Fun-Fun
Festivals, holidays and assorted convivialities. Maybe even games.
chúxì, songkran, ramadhan, hogmanay, vesak, winternights, diwali, eid, halloween, bloomsday, april fools' day, festa dei ceri and 39 more...
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perhapsolutely's Words
polyradiculoneuro..., abulia, abubble, abscission, abaft, zareba, abatis, abigail, abiogenesis, ablate, ablaut, abo and 1705 more...
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npydyuan's Words
lambent, plangent, quisling, puerile, callow, cigarette, aviary, tangential, esoterica, interrobang, paranaue, obsolescence and 105 more...
Tweets
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sionnach The practice of a dinner and evening of entertainment goes back at least as far as the first known mention of the dinner in 1683. According to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), Mechanick Exercises by Joseph Moxon describes the event as such:
"It is also customary for all the Journey-men to make every Year new Paper Windows...; Because that day they make them, the Master Printer gives them a Way-goose; that is, he makes them a good Feast, and not only entertains them at his own House, but besides, gives them Money to spend at the Ale-house or Tavern at Night. These Way-gooses, are always kept about Bartholomew-tide. And till the Master-Printer have given this Way-goose, the Journey-men do not use to Work by Candle Light."
See also Yale Wayzgoose Keepsakes Dec 8, 2008
reesetee "An annual outing and dinner of the staff of a printing works or the printers of a newspaper. Originally the word applied to a dinner given by a master printer for his workmen each year on or around St Bartholomew's Day (24 August)." (From Foyle's Philavery: A Treasury of Unusual Words, by Christopher Foyle.) Oct 3, 2007