goog

From Irish and Scottish Gaelic gog / gug, cf. googie, from gugaí / gogaí (“sound made by chickens, baby name for chicken, baby name for egg" (i.e. gug-gug-gugaí)”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɡuːɡ/, /ɡʊɡ/

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• Rhymes: -uːɡ, -ʊɡ

goog (plural googs)

1. (Australia, slang) An egg.
   • 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber & Faber, published 2003, page 53:

     I always supposed he was called Goog because the tiny flattened ears did nothing to interrupt the goog-like sweep from crown to jaw.

   • 2016, J. D. Barrett, The Secret Recipe for Second Chances:

     From its modest beginnings in one's diet as a boiled goog with toast soldiers, to the heady heights of the soufflé, the egg is the soul of French and English cuisine.

• full as a goog

• Eric Partridge (1984) “goog”, in Paul Beale, editor, A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English , 8th edition, New York: Macmillan, page 299

• go-go, gogo

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goog f (genitive singular goog, plural googyn)

1. toy

• didee
• gaih