Green’s Dictionary of Slang

goose v.1

[SE goose, a fool]

1. to ruin, to spoil.

[UK]Hotten Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. (2nd edn).
[UK]Hotten Sl. Dict.

2. to make a fool of, to deceive.

[Aus]Truth (Brisbane) 16 Nov. 1/4: [A]nd though in slang unschooled / I know enough to know that ‘goosed’ is synonym for fooled.
[US]J.L. Kuethe ‘Johns Hopkins Jargon’ in AS VII:5 332: to goose — to outwit; ‘to fox.’.
[US]‘Ed Lacy’ Men from the Boys (1967) 66: If the restaurant is a sharpshooter, when he feels the wholesaler is trying to goose him, he switches to a new one.
[US](con. 1969) M. Herr Dispatches 88: The last-minute business of going home, the backslapping and goosing; the joshing with the Old Man.
[US]G.V. Higgins Patriot Game (1985) 68: Quit goosing me, all right?