GOOSE
(1) verb: By 1881: To prod someone roughly and rudely in the anal region, usually as a course and amiable joke: "As she was bending over her lab table, a playful lab assistant goosed her." -- Max Shulman
(2) noun: "He threatened a goose, and I cringed."
(3) verb: By 1930s: To exhort strongly and irritably; goad harshly. " . . . and goosed the media into hyping them." -- Washington Post.; "Every once in a while goose it with defense spending" -- Village Voice
(4) noun: "The whole bunch needed a good goose."
(5) verb: By 1940s: To run an engine at full speed or with spurts of high speed. "Vroom-vroom-vroom, he goosed the engine to full-throated life" -- Earl Thompson
Thursday, December 08, 2005
Slang Primer No. 2
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