Full as a Goog

Hello, you have A Way with Words.

Hi, my name is Ashley. I’m from Danville, Kentucky.

But I lived overseas in Australia for a few years, and there’s this saying that I picked up there

That everyone here asks me what I mean when I say it.

It’s when you’re really full after dinner, after Thanksgiving dinner especially,

You say, oh, full is a goog.

And I’m really curious what a goog is.

Full is a goog?

How would you spell that last word?

I believe it’s spelled G-O-O-G.

This is 100% in Australianism.

Absolutely.

Although originally it’s from Scots,

But this is completely in Australianism.

And yeah, full is a goog.

It’s definitely in Australianism.

It just means very full.

And a gook is an egg egg like a chicken’s egg yeah you might even hear them say sometimes full

As an egg and yeah so it’s about being full full of food but also it can mean drunk or very drunk

So if somebody is walking out of a bar kind of unsteady a little tipsy you might say oh he’s full

As a full as a gook need to get him a cab get him a taxi that makes sense too yeah yeah i say it i

I have two twin daughters that are about a year old, and they eat, and their little bellies get tight.

And I’m like, oh, you’re full of a goog.

Yeah, with their little bellies looking exactly like a goog, like an ostrich goog.

My husband looks at me like, what are you talking about?

You know, it originally was a Scots dialect word for goggy or googie.

It’s a children’s word or was a children’s word for egg.

Itself probably from the Irish Gaelic or the Scots Gaelic words for egg.

In fact, some people might know gooseberries as goose gogs.

That gog there is the same word, meaning goose egg.

I love learning this stuff. It’s so fun.

Oh, yeah, the Australians, they hold up their side when it comes to expressions on language.

Oh, no kidding.

They’re quite good at it.

I’ve asked you a million questions.

Oh, yes, please.

We don’t talk about Australian English quite enough.

They’ve got some good stuff here, and I’ve got a big stack of Australian dictionaries.

Well, don’t they call chickens chooks?

Well, they can sometimes.

So chookgoogs?

You’ll find that in the United States now and again, too, yeah.

Full as a chookgoog.

Yeah.

That’s really full.

Ashley, thank you so much for your call.

We appreciate it.

Yeah, thank you, guys.

I enjoyed it.

All right, take care.

Our pleasure.

Bye-bye.

Bye-bye.

Of course, the Australians have other expressions, meaning full is something like full is a fart, full is a boot, full is a tick.

Oh, they’re very colorful.

Aren’t they?

Yeah, and we have a lot of podcast listeners in Australia.

I would love to hear from more of them.

Yeah, there’s tons of great stuff.

We speak the same language, but we don’t, strangely.

We’d love to talk about all those expressions with you, and you can always find ways to reach us.

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