goosecap

noun

goosecap

noun

Etymology From goose + cap.

1

A fool; a dolt.

Lucy and Edmund and Peridan were busy with their plans for the battle and though Lucy once said, "But where is his goosecap Highness?" Edmund only replied, "Not in the front, and that's good news enough. Leave well alone."1954, C. S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy:

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