ember-goose
English
Alternative forms
- embergoose, emmer-goose, imber-goose
Etymology
Calque of Norwegian emmer-gaas.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɛmbəɡuːs/
Noun
ember-goose (plural ember-geese)
- The great northern loon, Gavia immer.
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 406:
- There is the distant cry of an embergoose, and then the moon slips up out of the grasp of the trees.
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 406: