Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to goose
Participle: goosed
Gerund: goosing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | goose |
| you | goose |
| he;she;it | gooses |
| we | goose |
| you | goose |
| they | goose |
Perfect
| I | have goosed |
| you | have goosed |
| he;she;it | has goosed |
| we | have goosed |
| you | have goosed |
| they | have goosed |
Past
| I | goosed |
| you | goosed |
| he;she;it | goosed |
| we | goosed |
| you | goosed |
| they | goosed |
Pluperfect
| I | had goosed |
| you | had goosed |
| he;she;it | had goosed |
| we | had goosed |
| you | had goosed |
| they | had goosed |
Future
| I | will goose |
| you | will goose |
| he;she;it | will goose |
| we | will goose |
| you | will goose |
| they | will goose |
Future Perfect
| I | will have goosed |
| you | will have goosed |
| he;she;it | will have goosed |
| we | will have goosed |
| you | will have goosed |
| they | will have goosed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | goose |
| you | goose |
| he;she;it | goose |
| we | goose |
| you | goose |
| they | goose |
Perfect
| I | have goosed |
| you | have goosed |
| he;she;it | have goosed |
| we | have goosed |
| you | have goosed |
| they | have goosed |
Imperfect
| I | goosed |
| you | goosed |
| he;she;it | goosed |
| we | goosed |
| you | goosed |
| they | goosed |
Pluperfect
| I | had goosed |
| you | had goosed |
| he;she;it | had goosed |
| we | had goosed |
| you | had goosed |
| they | had goosed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would goose |
| you | would goose |
| he;she;it | would goose |
| we | would goose |
| you | would goose |
| they | would goose |
Perfect
| I | would have goosed |
| you | would have goosed |
| he;she;it | would have goosed |
| we | would have goosed |
| you | would have goosed |
| they | would have goosed |
Imperative
| you | goose |
| we | Let's goose |
| you | goose |
Verbs conjugated like 'goose'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'goose'
boose,
goosh,
loose,
noose,
oose,
roose,
alose,
boost,
booze,
bose,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. PIE word
2. *ǵʰh₂éns
3. From Middle English goos, gos, from Old English gōs, from Proto-West Germanic *gans, from Proto-Germanic *gans, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns.
4. Cognates
5. Compare West Frisian goes, North Frisian göis (also Fering-Öömrang dialect North Frisian gus; Sölring dialect North Frisian Guus; Heligoland dialect North Frisian gus), Low German Goos, Gans, Dutch gans, German Gans, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian gås, Icelandic gæs, Irish gé, Latin ānser, Latvian zùoss, Russian гусь (gusʹ), Albanian gatë, Ancient Greek χήν (khḗn), Avestan 𐬰𐬁 (zā), Sanskrit हंस (haṃsá).
6. * The tailor's iron is so called from the likeness of the handle to the neck of a goose.
Sample Sentences
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She greeted Miss Lonelyhearts, then took hold of her husband and shook the breath out of him. When he was quiet, she dragged him into their apartment. Miss Lonelyhearts followed and as he passed her in the dark foyer, she goosed him and laughed. [1933, Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts:]
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The witness stand. Goldminers giving evidence, sure he's violent didn't I see him with my own peepers chasing those poor kids up on the roof and he goosed my wife last Christmas. Violently. Just a forceful nudge of the knee. [1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), page 36:]
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Here are the three strange men have exposed themselves to me, the two obscene phone callers, the time I was goosed by an employer. [1991 August 24, Artemis OakGrove, “I Deserve A Medal”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 6, page 5:]
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Almost everyone in McKay’s impossibly starry cast feels like they’re jumping into the SNL host role, game for some light comedic lifting while waiting for the pros to show up and goose the laughs. [2021 December 7, Jesse Hassenger, “Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence cope with disaster in the despairing satire Don’t Look Up”, in AV Club:]
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The ensuing snarknado also seemed to goose the TV ratings. Hundreds of thousands of viewers switched on the movie after it began, suggesting that they’d gotten wind through Twitter of the bananas spectacle that was unfolding. [2023 July 10, James Poniewozik, “The Twitter Watch Party Is Over”, in The New York Times:]
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In some ways, Joe Biden’s administration goosed the cycle. His administration expanded industrial policy through semiconductor and clean-energy subsidies, […]. [2026 April 20, Amit Seru, “The Economic Cost of Donald Trump’s Constant Chaos”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]