grey goosegray goosen.

Brit.

/ˌɡreɪ ˈɡuːs/, U.S.

/ˌɡreɪ ˈɡus/

Forms: early Old English gregegos, early Old English gregos, Old English grægegos, Old English græggos, early Middle English greigos, Middle English gray gose, 1500s– gray goose, 1500s– grey goose.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: grey adj., goose n.

Etymology: < grey adj. + goose n. Compare Old Icelandic grágás.In the Old English forms grægegos, gregegos (only attested in the nominative singular) it is not entirely certain whether the medial e shows the usual connective vowel in a compound or whether the first element should be interpreted as an adjective showing an inflectional ending; the form gregos perhaps shows haplography. Also attested early as a surname, e.g. Richard Graigos (1249), Bartholomew Gregos (1305).

1. Any of various geese with predominantly grey plumage; esp. the greylag goose, Anser anser. More recently: (Ornithology) any goose of the genus Anser.In early use probably frequently implying ‘wild goose’ (as opposed to the domestic goose, usually white; cf. quot. OE), the greylag being the most common species of wild goose; thus in quot. eOE the word renders Latin anser silvatica ‘wild goose’. In quot. OE glossing classical Latin ganta (cf. discussion at gander n.).

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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > [noun] > member of subfamily Anserinea (goose) > genus Anser > anser anser (grey lag)

grey gooseeOE

fen-goose1606

greylag1685

marsh goose1766

stubble-goose1885

eOE Erfurt Gloss. in W. M. Lindsay Corpus, Épinal, Erfurt & Leyden Glossaries (1921) 47 Anser, auca, id est gos... Anser silvatica, gregos.

OE Brussels Gloss. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 284 Anser, uel ganra, hwit gos. Ganta uel auca, græggos.

c1350 Nominale (Cambr. Ee.4.20) in Trans. Philol. Soc. (1906) 11* Pynduth a gray gose [Fr. l'owe biz]..And pulluth a coppid larke.

1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. N.iij A greatter foule as a grey goose the fleshe wherof is ryght commendable specially yonge.

1605 N. Breton I pray you be not Angrie sig. A4^v As much white as a gray Goose, and manners as a blinde Mare.

1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect i. viii. 30 The price of a good gray Goose is eighteen pence.

1771 Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 126 There are various sorts of the geese, as the grey-goose, the way-way, the brant, the dunter.

1792 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina (new ed.) ii. x. 292 A[nser]. branta grisea maculata; the great particoloured brant, or grey goose.

1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 147 Grey-lag goose (Anser cinereus)... Also called..Grey goose.

1891 A. Conan Doyle White Company I. vi. 113 So we'll drink all together To..the land where the grey goose flew.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xx. 589 Of the five kinds of grey goose found in Britain in the winter, four nest in the far north, and only the grey-lag nests in this country.

1986 Kenyon Rev. 8 51 One gray goose, a Canadian honker who came a year ago and settled.

2004 Daily Post (Liverpool) (Nexis) 7 Feb. 12 A count of grey geese on the south west Lancs moss lands..revealed 3,500 pink feet at least.

†2. Scottish. A large grey boulder. Obsolete.

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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > [noun] > a rock > boulder > types of

whinstonea1585

Saracen's stone1644

grey wethers1660

sarsena1697

grey goose1816

Moeraki boulder1879

1816 W. Scott Black Dwarf iv, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. I. 78 In the name of wonder, what can he be doing there? ‘Biggin a dry-stane dyke, I think, wi' the grey geese, as they ca' thae great loose stanes.’

1898 Macmillan's Mag. Sept. 385/2 He..began with rough, unhewn stones, rolled laboriously from the hill behind him (grey geese, as they were called).

Compounds

Chiefly literary. Now archaic and historical.

C1. General attributive with reference to writing with a quill, as grey-goose pen, grey-goose quill, grey-goose weapon.

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1728 A. Pope Dunciad i. 178 Cou'd Troy be sav'd by any single hand, This grey-goose-weapon must have made her stand.

1775 P. Duigenan Pranceriana 62 She sends him forth to wield the grey-goose pen.

1781 C. Johnstone Hist. John Juniper II. 1 One of the keenest wits who ever wielded grey-goose quill.

1841 Mus. World 11 Nov. 305 We try our grey-goose pen (having no faith in steel-nibbed acuteness..).

1862 T. C. Grattan Beaten Paths I. i. 2 I recover the grey goose weapon I have so often dipped in ink.

1881 W. S. Symonds Malvern Chase i. 8 While my mother was busy in the long winter nights with her needle or spindle, my father would be engaged with his parchments and grey goose quill.

1921 Amer. Stationer & Office Outfitter 14 May 8/2 Most of these pens look as if they had been plucked from birds of gay plumage and the gray goose quills are painted with butterflies, etc.

2006 ‘C. J. Cherryh’ Fortress of Ice 3 He still had his skill with the sword. He opted now for a gray goose quill.

C2.

grey-goose shaft n. an arrow fletched with grey goose feathers; cf. grey-goose wing n.

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1798 Morcar & Elfina 6 So have I seen the grey-goose shaft, That struck the noblest deer.

1817 W. Scott Harold ii. iii. 45 When from Wulfstane's bended yew Sprung forth the grey-goose shaft.

1856 New Monthly Mag. 107 301/1 Fair shoot the Lincoln bowmen..; And their grey-goose shafts are hidden In the noblest of the realm.

1903 Gael Aug. 242/2 A..grey-goose shaft quivered in the center of the target.

2008 C. Paolini Brisingr (2010) 522 The archers who still had arrows maintained their lethal barrage, their gray-goose shafts penetrating bone and sinew alike.

grey-goose wing n. = grey-goose shaft n.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > arrow > [noun]

streale?680

floc893

arrowOE

pileOE

bolta1000

flanea1000

archer1297

shaftc1400

grey-goose wing1566

dorlach1575

goose-wing1630

shaftment1634

fate1700

timberc1879

1566 J. Partridge Worthie Hystorie Plasidas 996 Some from towre with bow in hande the gray-goose wing do sende.

1596 R. Johnson Famous Hist. Seauen Champions xiii. 126 Hys [sc. Alexander's] sturdy bowmen, whose conquering Gray-goose wing in former times hath terrified the cercled earth.

1644 J. Howell Englands Teares 3 My next neighbour France, (through whose bowells my gray-Goose wing flew so oft).

1702 Chevy-chase xlvi, in J. Dryden Sylvae (ed. 3) 256 Against Sir Hugh Montgomery so right his Shaft he set, The grey-goose-wing that was thereon in his Heart-Blood was wet.

a1735 Earl of Haddington 40 Select Poems (1753) xi. 48 Robin ply'd his gray goose wing, And never dream'd of such a thing.

1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles vi. xxii. 252 Forth whistling came the grey-goose wing.

1921 Cent. Mag. Apr. 698/1 The shaft dragged through the torn flesh, and the gray goose-wing came out scarlet dyed.

2002 W. Van Zwoll Hunter's Guide Accurate Shooting (2004) i. i. 4 The French learned quickly to fear the hiss of the ‘gray goose wing’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	grey goose
释义	grey goosegray goosen. Brit. /ˌɡreɪ ˈɡuːs/, U.S. /ˌɡreɪ ˈɡus/ Forms: early Old English gregegos, early Old English gregos, Old English grægegos, Old English græggos, early Middle English greigos, Middle English gray gose, 1500s– gray goose, 1500s– grey goose. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: grey adj., goose n. Etymology: < grey adj. + goose n. Compare Old Icelandic grágás.In the Old English forms grægegos, gregegos (only attested in the nominative singular) it is not entirely certain whether the medial e shows the usual connective vowel in a compound or whether the first element should be interpreted as an adjective showing an inflectional ending; the form gregos perhaps shows haplography. Also attested early as a surname, e.g. Richard Graigos (1249), Bartholomew Gregos (1305). 1. Any of various geese with predominantly grey plumage; esp. the greylag goose, Anser anser. More recently: (Ornithology) any goose of the genus Anser.In early use probably frequently implying ‘wild goose’ (as opposed to the domestic goose, usually white; cf. quot. OE), the greylag being the most common species of wild goose; thus in quot. eOE the word renders Latin anser silvatica ‘wild goose’. In quot. OE glossing classical Latin ganta (cf. discussion at gander n.). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > [noun] > member of subfamily Anserinea (goose) > genus Anser > anser anser (grey lag) grey gooseeOE fen-goose1606 greylag1685 marsh goose1766 stubble-goose1885 eOE Erfurt Gloss. in W. M. Lindsay Corpus, Épinal, Erfurt & Leyden Glossaries (1921) 47 Anser, auca, id est gos... Anser silvatica, gregos. OE Brussels Gloss. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 284 Anser, uel ganra, hwit gos. Ganta uel auca, græggos. c1350 Nominale (Cambr. Ee.4.20) in Trans. Philol. Soc. (1906) 11* Pynduth a gray gose [Fr. l'owe biz]..And pulluth a coppid larke. 1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. N.iij A greatter foule as a grey goose the fleshe wherof is ryght commendable specially yonge. 1605 N. Breton I pray you be not Angrie sig. A4^v As much white as a gray Goose, and manners as a blinde Mare. 1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect i. viii. 30 The price of a good gray Goose is eighteen pence. 1771 Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 126 There are various sorts of the geese, as the grey-goose, the way-way, the brant, the dunter. 1792 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina (new ed.) ii. x. 292 A[nser]. branta grisea maculata; the great particoloured brant, or grey goose. 1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 147 Grey-lag goose (Anser cinereus)... Also called..Grey goose. 1891 A. Conan Doyle White Company I. vi. 113 So we'll drink all together To..the land where the grey goose flew. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xx. 589 Of the five kinds of grey goose found in Britain in the winter, four nest in the far north, and only the grey-lag nests in this country. 1986 Kenyon Rev. 8 51 One gray goose, a Canadian honker who came a year ago and settled. 2004 Daily Post (Liverpool) (Nexis) 7 Feb. 12 A count of grey geese on the south west Lancs moss lands..revealed 3,500 pink feet at least. †2. Scottish. A large grey boulder. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > [noun] > a rock > boulder > types of whinstonea1585 Saracen's stone1644 grey wethers1660 sarsena1697 grey goose1816 Moeraki boulder1879 1816 W. Scott Black Dwarf iv, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. I. 78 In the name of wonder, what can he be doing there? ‘Biggin a dry-stane dyke, I think, wi' the grey geese, as they ca' thae great loose stanes.’ 1898 Macmillan's Mag. Sept. 385/2 He..began with rough, unhewn stones, rolled laboriously from the hill behind him (grey geese, as they were called). Compounds Chiefly literary. Now archaic and historical. C1. General attributive with reference to writing with a quill, as grey-goose pen, grey-goose quill, grey-goose weapon. ΚΠ 1728 A. Pope Dunciad i. 178 Cou'd Troy be sav'd by any single hand, This grey-goose-weapon must have made her stand. 1775 P. Duigenan Pranceriana 62 She sends him forth to wield the grey-goose pen. 1781 C. Johnstone Hist. John Juniper II. 1 One of the keenest wits who ever wielded grey-goose quill. 1841 Mus. World 11 Nov. 305 We try our grey-goose pen (having no faith in steel-nibbed acuteness..). 1862 T. C. Grattan Beaten Paths I. i. 2 I recover the grey goose weapon I have so often dipped in ink. 1881 W. S. Symonds Malvern Chase i. 8 While my mother was busy in the long winter nights with her needle or spindle, my father would be engaged with his parchments and grey goose quill. 1921 Amer. Stationer & Office Outfitter 14 May 8/2 Most of these pens look as if they had been plucked from birds of gay plumage and the gray goose quills are painted with butterflies, etc. 2006 ‘C. J. Cherryh’ Fortress of Ice 3 He still had his skill with the sword. He opted now for a gray goose quill. C2. grey-goose shaft n. an arrow fletched with grey goose feathers; cf. grey-goose wing n. ΚΠ 1798 Morcar & Elfina 6 So have I seen the grey-goose shaft, That struck the noblest deer. 1817 W. Scott Harold ii. iii. 45 When from Wulfstane's bended yew Sprung forth the grey-goose shaft. 1856 New Monthly Mag. 107 301/1 Fair shoot the Lincoln bowmen..; And their grey-goose shafts are hidden In the noblest of the realm. 1903 Gael Aug. 242/2 A..grey-goose shaft quivered in the center of the target. 2008 C. Paolini Brisingr (2010) 522 The archers who still had arrows maintained their lethal barrage, their gray-goose shafts penetrating bone and sinew alike. grey-goose wing n. = grey-goose shaft n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > arrow > [noun] streale?680 floc893 arrowOE pileOE bolta1000 flanea1000 archer1297 shaftc1400 grey-goose wing1566 dorlach1575 goose-wing1630 shaftment1634 fate1700 timberc1879 1566 J. Partridge Worthie Hystorie Plasidas 996 Some from towre with bow in hande the gray-goose wing do sende. 1596 R. Johnson Famous Hist. Seauen Champions xiii. 126 Hys [sc. Alexander's] sturdy bowmen, whose conquering Gray-goose wing in former times hath terrified the cercled earth. 1644 J. Howell Englands Teares 3 My next neighbour France, (through whose bowells my gray-Goose wing flew so oft). 1702 Chevy-chase xlvi, in J. Dryden Sylvae (ed. 3) 256 Against Sir Hugh Montgomery so right his Shaft he set, The grey-goose-wing that was thereon in his Heart-Blood was wet. a1735 Earl of Haddington 40 Select Poems (1753) xi. 48 Robin ply'd his gray goose wing, And never dream'd of such a thing. 1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles vi. xxii. 252 Forth whistling came the grey-goose wing. 1921 Cent. Mag. Apr. 698/1 The shaft dragged through the torn flesh, and the gray goose-wing came out scarlet dyed. 2002 W. Van Zwoll Hunter's Guide Accurate Shooting (2004) i. i. 4 The French learned quickly to fear the hiss of the ‘gray goose wing’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.eOE
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