Comments on: Goozle

By: Veronica

Veronica — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:23:28 +0000

My daddy always used it meaning throat. My husband has laughed at me for years for using this & accuses me of making it up. If I ever want to get a big laugh, when we play softball or go tubing on the lake or whatever sport, I can just say “Ow! That hit me right in the goozle!” Cracks them up every time. My family (including my husband) now use it often.

By: mike

mike — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 01:27:31 +0000

The goozle pipe stretches between your piehole and your gut. Everyone knows that.

By: Nancy

Nancy — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 23:39:02 +0000

My mom, and her mom and sisters, always used ‘goozle’ in the context of that point beyond which others shouldn’t see, for example “That blouse goes down to her goozle!” referring to a low cut neckline, or “Her skirt is cut up to her goozle” meaning a very high split or short skirt.

By: luvmygrands

luvmygrands — Tue, 15 May 2012 20:58:11 +0000

My husband from Southeast Missouri calls the Adam’s Apple a “goozle pin”. I have laughed about that for years, but now find that is may be perfectly applicable.

By: Kat

Kat — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 04:33:03 +0000

I learned the term “goozle snap” as a young child. When you put your pointer finger and thumb together and “flick” someone, you are giving them a goozle snap. I never thought much of the term until I meet my current boyfriend. He looked at me strangely when I used it and demonstrated. He claimed he’s never hard a finger snap called a goozle snap.

I attempted to Google it (ha), thinking I’d surely find some evidence of the term. To my surprise, there is none! I asked my mom, and the only thing she knew is that it was somehow passed down from my maternal grandmother’s family. Now after reading this, I’m wondering where the family got it lol

By: cee

cee — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:04:16 +0000

i was just watching casablanca with a friend and this lady in the bar had quite a large adams apple for a woman and i said “that woman sure has a big goozle”, of course that flew over his head like a bird. funny how things like that stick with you for a lifetime.
perhaps curious but not flicted
from tennessee

By: H D Harrison

H D Harrison — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:27:18 +0000

The Confederate guerrilla Champ Ferguson was known to have decapitated some Federal supporters with a butcher knife. Champ was said to have cut off one victim’s head and “jobbed” a tobacco stalk down his “goozle.”

By: Rich

Rich — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:51:48 +0000

My mom is from New Orleans and has always used the expression “I feel like I been through the goozle pipe” to mean she felt worn out, in the same way some might say “I’ve been through the mill”.

When asked what the goolze pipe is, she refers to the pipe often seen in cartoons, that has many twists and turns that characters sometimes are forced through for comic effect.

By: Dr. Goodword

Dr. Goodword — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:57:37 +0000

The meaning of “goozle” still seems to be escaping people. Let’s say this definition, “throat”, were correct. What would be the lady from Tennesee mean by saying, “Whoa! That nearly burnt off mah throat!” Burn off my throat?

I was raised in central North Carolina and have heard and used this word hundreds of times. In central North Carolina it means “uvula” and “uvula” fits perfectly the sentence quoted above.