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Advent Definitions: a daily festive word from Special Collections

By Tabitha Tuckett, on 1 December 2017

Who needs Advent calendars when you have dictionaries? Every day in December we’re going to tweet one of our favourite seasonal definitions from our Rare English Dictionaries Collection.

Just in case you’ve missed our tweets and Special Collections blogpost today, here they are as a Friday-night winter-warmer. We’re kicking off December with a goose, as found in R 221 DICTIONARIES WEBSTER 1869 – Webster, The people’s dictionary of the English language (London, [1869?]):

 

Prefer your bird words to be succinct? Here’s another goose, in R 221 DICTIONARIES SHERIDAN 1800 – Sheridan, Sheridan’s pronouncing and spelling dictionary (London, [1800]):

Read more on geese, lexicography, and our Rare English Dictionaries Collection here and to receive your daily Advent definition, follow us on Twitter @UCLSpecColl

Happy 1 December!

2 Responses to “Advent Definitions: a daily festive word from Special Collections”

  • 1
    sfaajhe wrote on 1 December 2017:

    A quick look in modern dictionaries reveals a much ruder meaning of ‘goose’. Are you implying something about someone?

  • 2
    Tabitha Tuckett wrote on 1 December 2017:

    Not at all – just the 1800s definitions above.

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