swoose
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An animal cross between a swan and a goose, especially one produced from a male swan and a female goose.
Informal
noun
A person or thing sharing the characteristics of two otherwise separate groups; a hybrid (also see Swoose)
Informal
name
A specific B-17 bomber plane used extensively in World War Two.
Example Sentences
- "A bird prodigy of evil and hybrid character is the despair of a Norfolk farmer. It rejoices in the name of the “swoose”, a portmanteau word indicating its origin, for its father was a swan and its mother a goose. This ill-assorted pair had three children — three “sweese”."
- "Mr. Peirce had already promised the bird to me, and so, during the summer, hearing that a more or less fabulous fowl had arrived from nowhere in particular, I visited the Park and Mr. Peirce’s long lost “Swoose.”"
- "And this one's a cross between a swan and a goose, and we call him a swoose."
- "I had been the mistress of fourteen turtles over a number of years, and I could boast having been bitten by, along with the standard animals, a horse, a swoose, and a camel."
- "The associate in arts or A.A. degree, another "swoose," has quickly established itself as the community college degree in a degree-obsessed nation."
- "Well by the time all the cooks in that broth got through with it, by the time it emerged from the Congress, it was a "swoose." It was not swan and it was not goose, it was a "swoose." It was a "swoose" to its dying day, which hasn't quite arrived yet, but its [sic] imminent."