gooseherd

[ goos-hurd ]

noun

1. a person who tends geese.

Word History and Origins

Origin of gooseherd¹

First recorded in 1200–50, gooseherd is from Middle English gos herd. See goose, herd ²

Example Sentences

"Yes, the son of a gooseherd in Fief; he served his time with the Zouaves."

From Project Gutenberg

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.

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In the words of the captive voevoda, Sheremetyeff, he was better fitted to be a gooseherd than a hetman.

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Thus he suffered ill-will without bitterness, but also, knowing he had not himself deserved it, without humiliation; and when, having reached his tenth year, he was chosen to be the gooseherd of the village--not, indeed, with the goodwill of all, but simply because no other serviceable lad had offered--he burned with a desire to gain for himself commendation and approval.

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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