swoose

== English == === Etymology === Blend of swan +‎ goose. === Noun === swoose (plural swooses or sweese) (informal) An animal cross between a swan and a goose, especially one produced from a male swan and a female goose. Synonym: gwan 1928 John C. Phillips, "Another "Swoose" or Swan × Goose Hybrid," The Auk, Vol. 45, No. 1 (Jan., 1928), pp. 39-40 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.” (informal) A person or thing sharing the characteristics of two otherwise separate groups; a hybrid (also see Swoose) 1979 "A History of Cancer Control in the United States, 1946-1971: Appendixes," U.S. National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Control and Rehabilitation, p98 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. (slang) A stupid person. Synonym: goose === See also === guck