verb: goose; 3rd person present: gooses; past tense: goosed; past participle: goosed; gerund or present participle: goosing
1.
poke (someone) in the bottom.
2.
NORTH AMERICAN
give (something) a boost; invigorate.
Phrases
what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander — what is appropriate in one case is also appropriate in the other case in question.
Origin
Old English gōs, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch gans and German Gans, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin anser and Greek khēn .
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Akhenaten (pronounced /ˌækəˈnɑːtən/), also spelled Echnaton, Akhenaton, Ikhnaton, and Khuenaten (Ancient Egyptian: ꜣḫ-n-jtn, meaning "Effective for the Aten"), was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh reigning c. 1353–1336 or 1351–1334 BC, the tenth ruler of the Eighteenth Dynasty.