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goose-penned

goose-penned is the simple past and past participle of goose-pen.

Meaning of goose-pen

Verb

goose-pen (third-person singular simple present goose-pens, present participle goose-penning, simple past and past participle goose-penned)

  1. (rare) To write with a quill pen.
    • Upon the infinitely wise countrywoman's suggestion, she goose-penned, from the edge of her bed, on a side table with cabriole legs, a love letter and took five minutes to reread it in a languorous but loud voice […]1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 7

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Questions about goose-penned

What is goose-penned the simple past and past participle of?
Goose-penned is the simple past and past participle of goose-pen.

Words near goose-penned in the dictionary

  1. goose-grass
  2. goose-grasses
  3. goose-ish
  4. goose-like
  5. goose-pen
  6. goose-penned
  7. goose-pens
  8. goose-rumped
  9. goose-step
  10. goose-stepped
  11. goose-stepper

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Adapted from Wiktionary: goose-penned (page history and authors); goose-pen (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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