different between goos vs loos

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u?z/

Noun

goos

1. plural of goo

Verb

goos

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of goo

Cornish

Alternative forms

• goes

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *waytos, probably ultimately from the root of gwythi (“veins”), see that entry for cognates. Cognate with Breton gwad and Welsh gwaed.

Pronunciation

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [??o?z]
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [??u?z]

Noun

goos m (plural gosow)

1. blood
2. bloodline

Mutation

References

Middle English

Alternative forms

• gosse, goce, gos, gose

Etymology

From Old English g?s

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o?s/

Noun

goos (plural gese or gece)

1. goose (especially a female one)
2. The meat or corpse of a goose; a dead goose.
3. A fool or idiot.

Related terms

• goselyng
• goshauk
• gossomer

Descendants

• English: goose
• Scots: guse

Somali

Noun

goos ?

1. The act of biting

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• enPR: lo?oz, IPA^(key): /lu?z/
• Rhymes: -u?z
• Homophone: lose

Noun

loos

1. plural of loo

Etymology 2

From Middle English l?s (“reputation, renown, fame, infamy, rumor, news”), from Old French los, from Latin laus (“praise, glory, fame, renown”). Compare laud.

Pronunciation

• enPR: lo?os, IPA^(key): /lu?s/
• Rhymes: -u?s
• Homophone: loose

Noun

loos (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Praise, fame, reputation.

   • Hercules that had the grete loos

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, vi, xii, 12

     That much he feared, least reprochfull blame

     With foule dishonour him mote blot therefore;

     Besides the losse of so much loos and fame,

     As through the world thereby should glorifie his name.

Anagrams

• OOLs, Oslo, sloo, solo, sool

Cornish

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *llu?d, from Proto-Celtic *?l?tos.

Pronunciation

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [lo?z]
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [lu?z]

Adjective

loos

1. grey

See also

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lo?s/
• Hyphenation: loos
• Rhymes: -o?s

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch loos, from Old Dutch *l?s, from Proto-Germanic *lausaz.

Adjective

loos (comparative lozer, superlative meest loos or loost)

1. blank, empty
2. idle
3. amiss, wrong, problematic
4. sly, cunning
5. (obsolete) clever, insightful

Inflection

Derived terms

• loosheid

See also

• -loos

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

loos

1. first-person singular present indicative of lozen
2. imperative of lozen

Anagrams

• Oslo

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian *l?s (attested only in compounds as -l?s), from Proto-West Germanic *laus. More at lease, loose.

Adjective

loos

1. empty