Vocabulary : Goodwife to Gooseberries

Goodwife : The mistress of a house.
Goody : A bonbon, cake, or the like; -- usually in the pl. ;; An American fish; the lafayette or spot. ;; Goodwife; -- a low term of civility or sport. ;; Weakly or sentimentally good; affectedly good; -- often in the reduplicated form goody-goody.
Goody-goody : Mawkishly or weakly good; exhibiting goodness with silliness.
Goodyship : The state or quality of a goody or goodwife
Goolde : An old English name of some yellow flower, -- the marigold (Calendula), according to Dr. Prior, but in Chaucer perhaps the turnsole.

Gooroo : Alt. of Guru
Goosander : A species of merganser (M. merganser) of Northern Europe and America; -- called also merganser, dundiver, sawbill, sawneb, shelduck, and sheldrake. See Merganser.
Goose : Any large web-footen bird of the subfamily Anserinae, and belonging to Anser, Branta, Chen, and several allied genera. See Anseres. ;; Any large bird of other related families, resembling the common goose. ;; A tailor's smoothing iron, so called from its handle, which resembles the neck of a goose. ;; A silly creature; a simpleton. ;; A game played with counters on a board divided into compartments, in some of which a goose was depicted.
Goose egg : In games, a zero; a score or record of naught; -- so named in allusion to the egglike outline of the zero sign 0. Called also duck egg.
Gooseberries : of Gooseberry

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