shoe-goose

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Corrupted form influenced by the familiar but irrelevant English words shoe and goose.

Noun[edit]

shoe-goose (plural not attested)

(India, obsolete) Alternative form of syagush

References[edit]

Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “shoe-goose”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].

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