Crossword clues for goose
goose
- Source of a fairy-tale fortune
- Silly fowl
- Part of a gaggle
- Nene, e.g
- Formation flier
- Farm bird
- Duck relative
- Character who dies in "Top Gun"
- Bird that honks
- Aesopian source of golden eggs
- You can get down from it?
- Ying Yang Twins "Grey ___"
- Word with Mother or silly
- Word with "bumps" or "eggs"
- Word after Mother or Canada
- Word after "Mother" or "Canada"
- V member
- V component
- The Cratchits' Christmas fowl
- Swan's kin
- Swan cousin
- Silly type
- Silly creature
- Seasonal flyer
- Quink or brant
- Poke lewdly
- Park honker
- One that might take a gander
- One in a gaggle
- Mother with many rhymes
- Mother that got us started?
- Mother riding a flying gander
- Mother of rhyme
- Mother of nursery tales
- Mother of nursery rhymes
- Mother ___ (nursery rhyme source)
- Labrador's _____ Bay
- Kind of step
- Kid-lit gold source
- It may be in a skein
- Hundred dollar honker?
- Honking waterfowl
- Honking flier
- Hissing animal
- High hanger
- He said ____ Bay, Labrador
- Graylag, e.g
- Golden-egg source
- Golden egg producer
- Gander's partner
- Fox and ______
- Formation flyer
- Feathered honker
- Fairy tale Mother
- Embden, e.g
- Duck, duck follower
- Double O honker
- Dickensian holiday meal
- Dickensian holiday dish
- Christmas fowl
- Chosen one, in a kids' game
- Canadian bird that honks
- Bird who laid a golden egg
- Bird that lays golden eggs, in a fairy tale
- Bird that flies in a V
- Belgian "Synrise" band
- Barnyard waddler
- Animal that hisses
- Animal in a gaggle
- Aesopian source of wealth
- A gone ___
- "The Snow ___"
- "Father ___" (1964 Cary Grant film)
- "Duck, duck, ___"
- _____ River (New Brunswick locale )
- _____ Bay, Labrador
- ____ Lake, Labrador
- ____ Berry, or migratory honker
- March could feature this bird before tons in September
- Small fliers, greenest distributed, in outskirts of Boulogne
- Graylag or specklebelly
- Mother _____
- Hughes's plane Spruce _____
- Barnyard honker
- Christmas bird
- Stir up, in a way
- Dinner for the Cratchits
- Honker in a skein
- Dinner bird
- Christmas dinner bird
- Ninny
- Simpleton
- Mother ___ stories
- Stimulate an increase in
- Christmas entree, maybe
- Golden egg layer of story
- The Cratchits' Christmas dinner
- Silly sort
- "Duck, duck" follower
- One taking a gander?
- "Silly" bird
- Flier in a V formation
- Web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic than ducks
- A man who is a stupid fool
- Golden-egg layer, in a fairy tale
- Silly Mother?
- Embden, e.g.
- Toulouse, e.g.
- Reliever Gossage
- Honker on high
- Mother ___ nursery rhymes
- Aureate egg producer
- Silly one?
- Yule pièce de résistance
- Anserine bird
- Web-footed female
- Kind of step or neck
- A Canadian transient
- Snow or Mother follower
- Golden-egg producer
- Source of foie gras
- Brant or quink
- Mother or silly
- Snow or Canada
- Gossage or Goslin
- Go to sea when short of time and with no adult? Silly person!
- Gaggle member
- Mother who rhymes ‘sticky sludge’ with ‘empty smudge’
- Marches in an odd fashion
- Could be a barnacle's inappropriate prod
- Waterfowl, say, including small ducks on the rise
- Silly bird
- Fool may be unwelcome pain in the backside
- Large waterbird
- Bird; foolish person
- Bird moves tail around to protect egg
- Bird goes savage protecting egg
- Bird goes wild protecting egg
- Honking bird
- Aquatic bird
- Foolish one
- Down source
- Silly person, or a migratory bird
- Web-footed bird
- Urge to action
- Gander's mate
- Silly fellow
- Gander, e.g
- Brant or blue
- One in a flock
- Inane one
- Winged honker
- V-formation flier
- Swan relative
- Source of golden eggs
- Gold source of fable
- Bird in a gaggle
- Anthony Edwards, in "Top Gun"
- Toulouse, e.g
- Tailor's pressing iron
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Goose \Goose\ (g[=oo]s), n.; pl. Geese (g[=e]s). [OE. gos, AS. g[=o]s, pl. g[=e]s; akin to D. & G. gans, Icel. g[=a]s, Dan. gaas, Sw. g[*a]s, Russ. guse. OIr. geiss, L. anser, for hanser, Gr. chh`n, Skr. ha[.m]sa. [root]233. Cf. Gander, Gannet, Ganza, Gosling.] (Zo["o]l.)
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Any large web-footen bird of the subfamily Anserin[ae], and belonging to Anser, Branta, Chen, and several allied genera. See Anseres.
Note: The common domestic goose is believed to have been derived from the European graylag goose ( Anser anser). The bean goose ( A. segetum), the American wild or Canada goose ( Branta Canadensis), and the bernicle goose ( Branta leucopsis) are well known species. The American white or snow geese and the blue goose belong to the genus Chen. See Bernicle, Emperor goose, under Emperor, Snow goose, Wild goose, Brant.
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Any large bird of other related families, resembling the common goose.
Note: The Egyptian or fox goose ( Alopochen [AE]gyptiaca) and the African spur-winged geese ( Plectropterus) belong to the family Plectropterid[ae]. The Australian semipalmated goose ( Anseranas semipalmata) and Cape Barren goose ( Cereopsis Nov[ae]-Hollandi[ae]) are very different from northern geese, and each is made the type of a distinct family. Both are domesticated in Australia.
A tailor's smoothing iron, so called from its handle, which resembles the neck of a goose.
A silly creature; a simpleton.
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A game played with counters on a board divided into compartments, in some of which a goose was depicted. The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose. --Goldsmith. A wild goose chase, an attempt to accomplish something impossible or unlikely of attainment. Fen goose. See under Fen. Goose barnacle (Zo["o]l.), any pedunculated barnacle of the genus Anatifa or Lepas; -- called also duck barnacle. See Barnacle, and Cirripedia. Goose cap, a silly person. [Obs.] --Beau. & . Goose corn (Bot.), a coarse kind of rush ( Juncus squarrosus). Goose feast, Michaelmas. [Colloq. Eng.] Goose grass. (Bot.)
A plant of the genus Galium ( G. Aparine), a favorite food of geese; -- called also catchweed and cleavers.
A species of knotgrass ( Polygonum aviculare).
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The annual spear grass ( Poa annua).
Goose neck, anything, as a rod of iron or a pipe, curved like the neck of a goose; specially (Naut.), an iron hook connecting a spar with a mast.
Goose quill, a large feather or quill of a goose; also, a pen made from it.
Goose skin. See Goose flesh, above.
Goose tongue (Bot.), a composite plant ( Achillea ptarmica), growing wild in the British islands.
Sea goose. (Zo["o]l.) See Phalarope.
Solan goose. (Zo["o]l.) See Gannet.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a large waterfowl proverbially noted, I know not why, for foolishness" [Johnson], Old English gos, from Proto-Germanic *gans- "goose" (cognates: Old Frisian gos, Old Norse gas, Old High German gans, German Gans "goose"), from PIE *ghans- (cognates: Sanskrit hamsah (masc.), hansi (fem.), "goose, swan;" Greek khen; Latin anser; Polish gęś "goose;" Lithuanian zasis "goose;" Old Irish geiss "swan"), probably imitative of its honking.\n
\nSpanish ganso "goose" is from a Germanic source. Loss of "n" sound is normal before "s." Plural form geese is an example of i-mutation.\n
\nMeaning "simpleton" is from 1540s. To cook one's goose first attested 1845, of unknown origin; attempts to connect it to Swedish history and Greek fables have been unconvincing. Goose egg "zero" first attested 1866 in baseball slang. The goose that laid the golden egg is from Aesop.
"jab in the rear," c.1880, from goose (n.), possibly from resemblance of the upturned thumb to a goose's beak. Related: Goosed; goosing. In 19c. theatrical slang, to be goosed meant "to be hissed" (by 1818).
Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of various grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae, which have feathers and webbed feet and are capable of flying, swimming, and walking on land, and which are bigger than ducks. 2 The flesh of the goose used as food. 3 (context slang English) A silly person. vb. 1 (context slang English) To sharply poke or pinch someone's buttocks. Derived from a goose's inclination to bite at a retreating intruder's hindquarters. 2 To stimulate, to spur. 3 (context slang English) To gently accelerate an automobile or machine, or give repeated small taps on the accelerator. 4 (context UK slang English) Of private-hire taxi drivers, to pick up a passenger who has not pre-booked a cab. This is unauthorised under UK licensing conditions.
WordNet
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Geese are waterfowl belonging to the tribe Anserini of the family Anatidae. This tribe comprises the genera Anser (the grey geese), Branta (the black geese) and Chen (the white geese). A number of other birds, mostly related to the shelducks, have "goose" as part of their names. More distantly related members of the family Anatidae are swans, most of which are larger than true geese, and ducks, which are smaller.
Goose may refer to:
Goose is a Belgian electronic rock band consisting of members Mickael Karkousse, Dave Martijn, Tom Coghe, and Bert Libeert.
Goose or the Goose is the nickname of:
People:
- Jeff Agoos (born 1968), Swiss-born American retired soccer player
- Ida Burger, American dance hall girl and prostitute during the early 20th century, known as "Ida the Goose"
- Bob Gagliano (born 1958), American former National Football League quarterback
- Paul Gaustad (born 1982), American National Hockey League player
- Goose Gonsoulin (born 1938) American football player
- Marc Goossens (born 1969), Belgian former race car driver
- Goose Goslin (1900–1971), American Major League Baseball player
- Simon Gosling (born 1969), British designer of special effects models
- Goose Gossage (born 1951), American Major League Baseball player
- Vladimir Gusev (cyclist) (born 1982), Russian road racing cyclist
- Matt Maguire, Australian rules footballer
- Jesse Sergent (born 1988), New Zealand racing cyclist
- Tony Siragusa (born 1967), American retired National Football League player
- Goose Tatum (1921-1967), African-American star basketball player with the Harlem Globetrotters and Negro league baseball player
- Jack Givens (born September 21, 1956), is a retired American collegiate and professional basketball player.
Other:
- Nick "Goose" Bradshaw, a character in the 1986 film Top Gun, played by Anthony Edwards
- Shane "Goose" Gooseman, a character in The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers television show
- Coaltown (1945–1965), American Thoroughbred racehorse nicknamed "The Goose"
Usage examples of "goose".
The leaves are acrid and pungent, being ungrateful to cattle, and even rejected by geese.
Rooms at the Skein of Geese were given infuriatingly anserine names rather than mere utilitarian numbers.
Titus headed for the kitchen and some minutes later crept across the reception area on his way upstairs, carrying a large ashet on which lay the carcass of the goose.
The bathroom floor was littered with shards of shattered ashet and the walls were awash with grease from the exploded goose.
The Carbon Goose avionics had an excellent inertial navigation system, but it was hardly designed with this kind of stunt in mind.
The man with all the pots and pans on his bicycle, the nun eating the baguette as she trundles along, the old woman shooing the geese, the businessman in his car eating a cake and attempting to look important.
He ate blackberries along the hedges, minded the geese with a long switch, went haymaking during harvest, ran about in the woods, played hop-scotch under the church porch on rainy days, and at great fetes begged the beadle to let him toll the bells, that he might hang all his weight on the long rope and feel himself borne upward by it in its swing.
We other hunters wore the hunting gear of woodcraft, namely, skull caps of deer hide, surmounted by the feathers of the eagle, the heron, or the bittern, while here and there was a cap with the wing of the wild goose across the front.
Clovelly herrings and Torridge salmon, Exmoor mutton and Stow venison, stubble geese and woodcocks, curlew and snipe, hams of Hampshire, chitterlings of Taunton, and botargos of Cadiz, such as Pantagruel himself might have devoured.
That duck was the first of the kind we had ever seen, and many thought it was of the goose species, only with short bowly legs.
His voice sounded raspy and she shivered, the single word creating goose bumbs over her skin.
He found square log houses, caulked with moss, deer pounds, birchbark canoes and bows of sycamore with arrows feathered with goose quills.
It was a cool, glistening patch in the shade of old weeping willows, and forcing a way through the clumps of weeds, preening and splashing themselves, swam a couple of snow-white, red-beaked geese.
Nathaniel Cadman called for stewed mutton, and goose, and woodcocks, while all around him these coxcombs took out their tobacco-boxes and spat upon the rushes.
Knowing that the note had been left by Trevor Dobson sent goose bumps racing over arms.