Word.ws English Dictionary

Whitley goose

Whitley goose noun: a dish of boiled onions with cheese and cream, baked until brown on top.

Noun

Whitley goose (uncountable)

  1. (UK, obsolete) A dish of boiled onions with cheese and cream, baked until brown on top.
    • To make Whitley Goose, an excellent old country recipe, I allow two large onions for each person […]1953, The Listener, volume 49, page 491
    • Whitley goose might disappoint carnivores expecting succulent fowl — it is a mixture of boiled onions, cheese and milk baked in an oven.2012, Jane Peyton, Brilliant Britain, page 167

Questions about Whitley goose

What does Whitley goose mean?
Whitley goose means a dish of boiled onions with cheese and cream, baked until brown on top.
What part of speech is Whitley goose?
Whitley goose is a noun.

Words near Whitley goose in the dictionary

  1. Whitley City
  2. Whitley council
  3. Whitley councils
  4. Whitley County
  5. Whitley Gardens
  6. Whitley goose
  7. Whitleyism
  8. Whitleys
  9. whitling
  10. Whitlingham
  11. whitlings

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Whitley goose (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Whitley goose.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/whitley_goose. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.