Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (also goosy) nervous, jittery, on edge.

1906		J.W. Carr ‘Words from Northwest Arkansas’ in DN III:ii 138: goosy, adj. Used of a person who is susceptible to nervous excitement when a finger is pointed at him, or when he is hardly touched or tickled. ‘We can have some sport with him; he’s goosy’.
1915		H.E. Rollins ‘A West Texas Word List’ in DN IV:iii 226: goosey, adj. Ticklish.
1929		C. McKay Banjo 88: Hi, but you sure is goosey.
1932		(con. 1910s) J.T. Farrell Young Lonigan in Studs Lonigan (1936) 22: Hennessey was goosey anyway, and he jumped.
1955		D. Niland Shiralee 125: Should have seen the way she looked at me [...] Made me feel goosey all over.
1960		(con. 1940s) G. Morrill Dark Sea Running 12: That’s nothing to get all girly and goosey about.
1977		(con. 1960s) Nicholson & Smith Spend, Spend, Spend (1978) 832: I went right goosy with him.
1986		R.G. Barrett Real Thing 175: Just in case I happen to get pulled over and some goosey walloper sticks his head in the window.
1986		L. Heinemann Paco’s Story (1987) 167: Being buck naked when she smiles that smirk down at him makes her feel so goosy and juicy.
1999		J. Ridley Everybody Smokes in Hell 88: Sweating. Goosy. Good citizen vs. good 24/7 Mart manager vs. hard time.

2. effeminate or homosexual.

1928		C. McKay Home to Harlem 215: That li’l goosey boy had to do the strutting all by himse’f.
1972		(ref. to mid-1960s) B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 90: goosey (adj, rare, mid ’60s) 1. having rounded hips and full buttocks which encourage ass-fucking.
1974		(con. 1945) E. Thompson Tattoo (1977) 268: A tall, extremely goosey Finn.

3. foolishly excited.

1933		E.A. Robertson Ordinary Families 50: Look, Lallie, there’s a kittiwake gull – are you going all goosey over it? Why don’t you write it a little poem?
1972		B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 90: goosey (adj, rare, mid ’60s) [...] 2. happily going to pieces when the ass is being played with.

4. ticklish in the anal area.

1961

H.C. Woodbridge ‘Miscellany’ in AS XXXVI:3 228: goosey, adj. Ticklish in the anal region.