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

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Example Sentences

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gooseherd

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

But he only frowned and told her to be silent, while the servants laughed and said: "Tattercoats is happy in her rags, playing with the gooseherd, let her be—it is all she is fit for."

From More English Fairy Tales by John Dickson Batten

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

Then came the gooseherd running after me, and called aloud in the village, 'The boy has stolen my goose!'

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

In our Franconian village the gooseherd was a little boy, vastly proud of his job.

From Home Life in Germany by Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick

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