goosery
English
Etymology
goose + -ery
Noun
goosery (plural gooseries)
- A place for keeping geese.
- The characteristics or actions of a goose; silliness.
- Milton
- The finical goosery of your neat sermon actor.
- Milton
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for goosery in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)