ˈgoose-cap ? Obs.
[see cap n.1 (sense 7).]
A booby, noodle, numskull, simpleton, fool.
| 1589 Nashe Martins Mths. Minde 45 And so will yon Sonnes both, like a couple of goosecaps. 1604 Dekker Honest Wh. Wks. 1873 II. 81 Out you Gulles, you Goose⁓caps, you Gudgeon-eaters! 1638 Ford Fancies iv. i, What a wise goose-cap hast thou shew'd thyself! 1711 Swift Jrnl. to Stella 18 Apr., Did you ever see such a blundering goosecap as Presto? 1764 Foote Mayor of G. i. Wks. 1799 I. 169 My husband is such a goose-cap, that I can't get no good out of him at home or abroad. 1820 Miss Mitford in L'Estrange Life (1870) II. 121 She's a goosecap..and a romp, and a saucebox. 1828 Scott F.M. Perth v, A plague on thee for a cold down-hearted goose-cap. |
Hence goose-ˈcapical a. nonce-wd., foolish.
| c 1785 J. Thompson's Man 14 Nonsensical, fantastical, goose-capical, coxcomical, and idiotical. |