gooseherd
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of gooseherd
First recorded in 1200–50, gooseherd is from Middle English gos herd. See goose, herd 2
Example Sentences
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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
So she grew up, with little to eat or to wear, spending her days out of doors, her only companion a crippled gooseherd, who fed his flock of geese on the common.
From English Fairy Tales by Rackham, Arthur
Now at first Tattercoats said she would not; but the gooseherd said, "Take fortune when it comes, little one."
From English Fairy Tales by Rackham, Arthur
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
In the words of the captive voevoda, Sheremetyeff, he was better fitted to be a gooseherd than a hetman.
From Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk
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