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Etymology
From Middle English goslyng, from Old Norse gæsling.
Pronunciation
Noun
gozleen
- gosling
1867, “SONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 6, page 108:Shoo zent him anoor die a gozleen to keep;- She sent him another day the goslings to keep;
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 108