gosling
(noun) young goose
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Gosling (plural n)
A surname.
• golgins, logings, oglings
gosling (plural goslings)
A young goose.
Synonym: gooseling
Coordinate terms: duckling, cygnet, swanling
A callow (“inexperienced, immature”), or foolish and naive, young person.
(dated) A catkin on nut trees and pines.
• golgins, logings, oglings
Source: Wiktionary
Gos"ling, n. Etym: [AS. g goose + -ling.]
1. A young or unfledged goose.
2. A catkin on nut trees and pines. Bailey.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 January 2025
(adjective) capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain; “fissile crystals”; “fissile wood”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
