goss

See also: Goss and goß

English

Pronunciation

• Audio (AU):

  (file)

Etymology 1

Clipping of gossip.

Noun

goss (uncountable)

1. (slang) gossip.

   The hottest goss in celeb-land today is that Angelina Jolie is jealous of her fella's relationship with his ex-wife.

   • 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 285:

     To give myself a break from the energy sapping, demoralising patrolling of this uninviting habitat, and to get away from any more creepy visions, I decided to drive into Mount Isa, ostensibly to be within phone range so I could contact Bob Forsyth and find out any local goss from him.

Etymology 2

See gorse.

Noun

goss (uncountable)

1. Obsolete form of gorse.
   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], line 180:

     through / Toothed briars, sharp furzes, pricking goss, and thorns,

Etymology 3

From gossamer.

Noun

goss (plural gosses)

1. (slang, obsolete) A hat.
   • 1838, Actors by Daylight (volume 1, page 143)

     He now states, as one of the miseries of being tall, his frequent collision with the shop blinds projecting over the footway, which endanger his head—or what is of more consequence to him, his hat. Some malicious people, on seeing him in full chase up Regent-street after his goss. (a la Pickwick) compared his activity to a snail in full gallop, while others remarked on his affinity to a spider after a fly.

References

• 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

• GSOs, sogs

---

German

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Verb

goss

1. first/third-person singular preterite of gießen

---

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔsː

Noun

goss

1. indefinite genitive singular of gos

---

Vilamovian

Etymology

From Middle High German gazze, from Old High German gazza, from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ. Cognate with German Gasse.

Noun

goss f (plural gossa)

1. street

---

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English gors, from Old English gorst, from Proto-West Germanic *gerstu.

Noun

goss

1. gorse

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 42