wayzgoose
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of wayzgoose
C18: from earlier waygoose, of unknown origin
Example Sentences
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Wayzgoose: Someone who blindly follows the GPS.
From Washington Post
“When Siri said to turn right, the wayzgoose drove off the bridge.”
From Washington Post
The weekend I went, the bustle was due to dueling festivals in the downtown area — the 29th Annual Blackberry Festival takes over the waterfront every first weekend of September, and the Wayzgoose Kitsap public arts festival was celebrating its first year in downtown Bremerton.
From Seattle Times
After shocking my taste buds awake with Dog Days’ festive flight, I took the scenic route through the Wayzgoose Kitsap festival, past a pair of steamrollers making ink prints, bouncing on tiptoe to see the Bremerton Police K-9 unit demonstration, and finally ending up on a quiet street just a couple of blocks over where a lone chalkboard sign pointed the way to LoveCraft Brewery.
From Seattle Times
She had already survived 36 rounds of competition and along the way had aced the spelling of words such as “konditorei,” “heiligenschein” and “wayzgoose.”
From New York Times
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