1748. T. Dyche, Dictionary (5th ed.). Goose (s.) ... also the large, heavy iron used by taylors, to press down their seams with when heated very hot. 1766. Kenrick, Falstaff’s Wedding, iii., 1. Although they had been hissing all the way like a tailor’s goose. 1861. Sala, Twice Round the Clock, Noon, Par. 12. An Irish tailor who has had a slight dispute with his wife the night before, and has corporeally chastised her with a hot goose—a tailor’s goose, be it understood—to the extent of all but fracturing her skull. 1877. Five Years’ Penal Servitude, ch. ii., p. 89. On the return of the warders from their own breakfast, the tools—scissors, sleeve-boards, irons, or geese—are served out. 2. (common).—A simpleton: usually only of women. Also Goosecap (q.v.). 1591. Shakspeare, Romeo and Juliet, ii., 4. Mercutio. Was I there with you for the goose? Rom. Thou wast never with me that thou wast not for the goose. 1696. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. 3. (venery).—See Winchester Goose. 4. (colloquial).—A reprimand; a wigging (q.v.); cf., verb, sense 1. 1865. G. F. Berkeley, My Life etc., i., 276. On the adventure reaching the ears of the Duke of Wellington, the active experimentalist received considerable goose. 5. (printers’).—See Wayz goose. 6. (colloquial).—A woman: whence, by implication, the sexual favour. Verb. (common).—1. To hiss; to condemn by hissing. Also to get the goose or the big bird (q.v.). Among Fr. equivalents are: appeler or siffler Azor (= to whistle a dog, Azor being a common canine appellation); boire une goutte (= to be goosed); attrapper; reconduire; se faire travailler; empoigner; éreinter; polisonner; égayer. 1854. Dickens, Hard Times, ch. vi. He was goosed last night, he was goosed the night before last, he was goosed to-day. 1858. Dickens, Xmas Stories (Going into Soc.), p. 67 (House. Ed.). Which makes you grind your teeth at him to his face, and which can hardly hold you from goosing him audible when he’s going through his War-Dance. 1873. Hornet, 29 Jan., p. 211, c. 2. Ferdin. Fact! My soul is sick on’t. Goosed last night; My salary docked. 1875. T. Frost, Circus Life, p. 281. An artiste is goosed, or gets the goose, when the spectators or auditors testify by sibillant sounds disapproval or dissatisfaction. 1886. Graphic, 10 Apr., p. 399. To be goosed, or, as it is sometimes phrased, ‘to get the big bird,’ is occasionally a compliment to the actor’s power of representing villainy, but more often is disagreeably suggestive of a failure to please. 2. (colloquial).—To ruin; to spoil. See Cook one’s goose. 1888. Cassell’s Saturday Journal, 22 Dec., p. 301. We was pretty nigh goosed. 3. (cobblers’).—To mend boots by putting on a new front half-way up, and a new bottom; elsewhere called footing boots. Cf., Fox. 4. (venery).—To go wenching; to womanize (q.v.).