gooseherd

American  

[goos-hurd] / ˈgusˌhɜrd /

noun

1. a person who tends geese.

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Etymology

Origin of gooseherd

First recorded in 1200–50, gooseherd is from Middle English gos herd. See goose, herd ²

Example Sentences

Leading the coalition is respectable, onion-bald Per Albin Hansson, Premier and leader of the Social Democrats for more than ten years, onetime gooseherd, onetime militant pacifist.

From Time Magazine Archive

Footnote 2: Little Hans of Sweinichen was deprived of his post as gooseherd because he had tried to keep the geese quiet by gagging them with small pieces of wood.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. I. by Freytag, Gustav

Once upon a time a witch cast a spell upon a king's daughter and held her in servitude as a gooseherd.

From A Second Book of Operas by Krehbiel, Henry Edward

Then the gooseherd smiled to himself, and played sweeter than ever.

From English Fairy Tales by Rackham, Arthur

The flocks were regularly taken to pasture and water, just as sheep are, and the man who tended them was called the gooseherd, corrupted into gozzerd.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various