swoosen.
/swuːs/ A bird that is the offspring of a swan and a goose. Also transferred.
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1920 Daily Mail 13 July 7/5 A bird prodigy of evil and hybrid character is the despair of a Norfolk farmer. It rejoices in the name of the ‘swoose’, a portmanteau word indicating its origin, for its father was a swan and its mother a goose. This ill-assorted pair had three children—three ‘sweese’.
1927 Daily Express 12 July 8/4 The swoose is a cross between the goose and the swan.
1954 Sun (Baltimore) 27 Apr. 1/7 A Democratic swan..who fell in love with a common farmyard goose today became the father of a ‘swoose’.
1964 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 24 May 29/2 By salvaging parts from the damaged planes, airmen resurrected a few bombers like the Swoose. The name Swoose, for part-swan, part-goose, reflects the plane's patchwork rebirth.
1976 Sydney Sun 20 Aug. 16/2 Like the ‘swoose’ (a cross between a swan and a goose) the ‘churkey’ is a mythical bird.
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