Male goose

  • 1Goose — Taxobox name = Goose image width = 240px image caption = Canada Goose, Branta canadensis regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves superordo = Galloanserae ordo = Anseriformes familia = Anatidae subfamilia = Anserinae tribus = Anserini… …

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  • 2goose — n. 1) geese cackle, honk 2) a flock, gaggle of geese 3) a young goose is a gosling 4) a male goose is a gander * * * [guːs] gaggle of geese honk a flock a male goose is a gander a young goose is a gosling geese cackle …

    Combinatory dictionary

  • 3goose — I UK [ɡuːs] / US [ɡus] noun Word forms goose : singular goose plural geese UK [ɡiːs] / US [ɡɪs] 1) a) [countable/uncountable] a large white or grey bird with a long beak called a bill. A male goose is called a gander and a young goose is called a …

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  • 4goose — goose1 [ gus ] (plural geese [ gis ] ) noun 1. ) count or uncount a large white or gray bird with a long beak called a bill. A male goose is called a gander and a young goose is called a gosling. A group of geese is called a flock. a ) uncount… …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 5goose — [OE] Goose has relatives throughout the Indo European languages: Latin ānser, Greek khén, Sanskrit hansás, Russian gus’, Czech husa, German and Dutch gans, and Swedish gåas (not to mention Irish Gaelic gēis ‘swan’) all go back to a prehistoric… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 6goose — [OE] Goose has relatives throughout the Indo European languages: Latin ānser, Greek khén, Sanskrit hansás, Russian gus’, Czech husa, German and Dutch gans, and Swedish gåas (not to mention Irish Gaelic gēis ‘swan’) all go back to a prehistoric… …

    Word origins

  • 7Male and Female — Directed by Cecil B. DeMille (uncredited) Produced by Cecil B. DeMille …

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  • 8goose — gooselike, adj. /goohs/, n., pl. geese for 1, 2, 4, 8, 9; gooses for 5 7; v., goosed, goosing. n. 1. any of numerous wild or domesticated, web footed swimming birds of the family Anatidae, esp. of the genera Anser and Branta, most of which are… …

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  • 9goose — I. /gus / (say goohs) noun (plural geese for defs 1 4, gooses for defs 5 and 6) 1. any of numerous wild or domesticated web footed birds of the family Anatidae, most of them larger and with a longer neck than the ducks; the principal genera are… …

  • 10goose —    1. obsolete    a prostitute    The common avian imagery. If she were a Winchester goose, she had syphilis, from the insalubrious church owned property in south London where the meaner prostitutes lived:     ... but that my fear is this Some… …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms