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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
gosling
noun
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▪ Adult greylag geese were more aloof and watched anxiously as their goslings joined in the competition for food.
▪ He could even remember the time he picked out six yellow goslings from a box kept warm by a light bulb.
▪ It is only when intrusive ethologists steal and hatch eggs that the wide tolerance of the goslings is revealed.
▪ Some go around shaking the eggs to kill the embryo goslings.
▪ The geese moved in, felt at home, laid eggs - and a most satisfactory twenty-four goslings hatched that year.
▪ Their goslings never learned how to migrate, and their descendants live on.
▪ Then we see the goslings in the spring.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gosling

Gosling \Gos"ling\, n. [AS. g[=o]s goose + -ling.]

  1. A young or unfledged goose.

  2. A catkin on nut trees and pines.
    --Bailey.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
gosling

mid-14c. (late 13c. as a surname), from Old Norse gæslingr, from gos "goose" (see goose (n.)) + diminutive suffix. replaced Old English gesling. The modern word may be a Middle English formation from Middle English gos "goose."

Wiktionary
gosling

n. 1 A young goose. 2 A callow (immature, inexperienced) / foolish, naive, young person. 3 (context dated English) A catkin on nut trees and pines.

WordNet
gosling

n. young goose

Wikipedia
Gosling

Gosling or Goslings may refer to:

  • A young goose
  • Gosling (surname)
Gosling (band)

Gosling (previously known as Loudermilk) was an American rock band formed in Tri-Cities, Washington. The band was composed of Davey Ingersoll (vocals, guitar), Mark Watrous (guitar, later keyboards), Shane Middleton (bass) and Isaac Carpenter (drums, percussion). As Loudermilk, formed in 1995, the group released two albums; the independently released Man with Gun Kills Three! (1998) and then major label debut The Red Record (2002), and toured with Megadeth and Mötley Crüe. Loudermilk appeared in an episode of Dawson's Creek (Season 6, Episode 12) under the stylized name "LoudMilk" performing "Rock 'N' Roll & The Teenage Desperation" on stage. They also performed "Elekt" on the TV show Charmed.

The group later, in 2004, changed both their name and music style and were then known as Gosling. They went on to release a self titled EP, through The Control Group in 2004 and their final album, Here Is..., through V2, in 2006. They played shows with Velvet Revolver and Rose Hill Drive before eventually disbanding.

Gosling (EP)

Gosling EP is an EP released by Gosling in 2004.

Gosling (surname)

Gosling is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Armine Nutting Gosling (1861–1942), Canadian women's-rights activist
  • Sir Audley Charles Gosling (1836-1913), British diplomat
  • Clint Gosling (born 1960), New Zealand footballer
  • Dan Gosling (born 1990), English footballer, currently playing for Bournemouth
  • R. Cunliffe Gosling (1868–1922), nineteenth century England football captain
  • Harry Gosling (1861–1930), British politician and trade union leader
  • Jake Gosling British producer and songwriter
  • James Gosling (born 1955), Canadian software developer, considered father of Java
  • Joanna Gosling (born 1971), British journalist
  • John Gosling (disambiguation)
  • John Gostling (1644–1733) English singer
  • Mike Gosling, (born 1980), United States former Major League Baseball pitcher
  • Paula Gosling, (born 1939), English crime writer
  • Ray Gosling, (1939–2013), English television presenter, journalist and gay rights activist
  • Raymond Gosling (1926–2015), English scientist
  • Richard Gosling (born 1974), English strongman
  • Ryan Gosling (born 1980), Canadian actor
  • Simon Gosling (born 1969), British modeller and propmaker
  • William Gosling (1892–1945), English recipient of the Victoria Cross
  • William Gosling (engineer) (born ca. 1930), British electrical engineer
  • William Gilbert Gosling (1863–1930), Canadian politician, businessman and author
  • William Gosling (footballer) (1869–1952), British footballer
  • William W. Gosling (1824–1883), English landscape painter

Usage examples of "gosling".

She looked for the family with the goslings - that must be the five geese swimming apart from the others.

Now the goslings were young geese just like their mother and father, only smaller.

May ducks turn to the left for their coops, the June ducks follow the hens to the top meadow, and even the idiot gosling has an inspiration now and then and stumbles on his own habitation.

The Pollingtons, the Wilders, the Wardens, the Baerens, the Goslings, and others of his acquaintance, talked of Lady Camper and General Ople rather maliciously.

Robinson or Pendle, least of all that Orsin was perhaps Mr Gosling, or Trulla possibly Miss Spencer.

He was in a terrible hurry, as Mister Gosling had only gone to the Jolly Bargeman and would be back in half an hour.

Mister Gosling had gone to the Jolly Bargeman to fetch back their supper, and the McDippers were below.

The brandy came, and Mister Gosling, with a reproachful look at Barnacle, poured it over his bleeding arm.

Mister Gosling firmly, as if, by washing alone, and without a paper or a penny changing hands, Barnacle had passed into his ownership.

Somehow he felt that they were a secret between him and Mister Gosling, and that to share a secret with the big man raised Barnacle a little .

Mister Gosling was about to push Barnacle after when he was forestalled.

Mister Gosling breathed deeply, and, telling Barnacle to get a move on with sweeping the hay off the deck, went down below again.

The Colonel was staring straight at Mister Gosling in a queer, searching kind of way that filled Barnacle with uneasiness.

Mister Gosling, moving in front of Barnacle as if to stop the Colonel getting at him with a knife or something.

Mister Gosling, and kept making quick, pushing movements with his hands behind his back, to tell Barnacle to shove off up the ladder.