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English
Etymology
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)”).
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Noun
goog (plural googs)
- (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.
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Noun
goog f (genitive singular goog, plural googyn)
- toy
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