1. goose(n = noun.animal) - web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic than ducks;
is a kind of anseriform bird
has parts: goose down, goose
is a member of anatidae, family anatidae, gaggle
has particulars: gosling, gander, anser cygnoides, chinese goose, anser anser, graylag, graylag goose, greylag, greylag goose, blue goose, chen caerulescens, brant, brant goose, brent, brent goose, branta canadensis, canada goose, canadian goose, honker, barnacle, barnacle goose, branta leucopsis
Derived form noun gosling1
2. goose(n = noun.person) bozo, cuckoo, fathead, goof, goofball, jackass, twat, zany - a man who is a stupid incompetent fool;
is a kind of fool, muggins, sap, saphead, tomfool
Derived forms adjective goosey1, adjective goosy1
3. goose(n = noun.food) - flesh of a goose (domestic or wild);
is a kind of poultry
is a part of goose
1. goose(v = verb.contact) - pinch in the buttocks; "he goosed the unsuspecting girl"
is one way to nip, pinch, squeeze, tweet, twinge, twitch
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody
2. goose(v = verb.contact) - prod into action;
is one way to egg on, incite, prod
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
3. goose(v = verb.contact) - give a spurt of fuel to; "goose the car"
is one way to pump
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
1. Any large web-footen bird of the subfamily
" The common domestic goose is believed to have been derived from the European graylag goose (
2. Any large bird of other related families, resembling the common goose. [1913 Webster]
" The Egyptian or fox goose (
3. A tailor's smoothing iron, so called from its handle, which resembles the neck of a goose. [1913 Webster]
4. A silly creature; a simpleton. [1913 Webster]
5. A game played with counters on a board divided into compartments, in some of which a goose was depicted. [1913 Webster]
"The pictures placed for ornament and use,
The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose." [1913 Webster]
goose, n. & v.
--n. (pl. geese)
1 a any of various large water-birds of the family Anatidae, with short legs, webbed feet, and a broad bill. b the female of this (opp. GANDER). c the flesh of a goose as food.
2 colloq. a simpleton.
3 (pl. gooses) a tailor's smoothing-iron, having a handle like a goose's neck.
--v.tr. sl. poke (a person) in the bottom.
Idiom:
goose bumps US = goose-flesh. goose-egg US a zero score in a game. goose-flesh (or -pimples or -skin) a bristling state of the skin produced by cold or fright. goose-step a military marching step in which the knees are kept stiff.
Etymology:
OE gos f. Gmc
N sharpness, acuity, acumination, spinosity, point, spike, spine, spicule, spiculum, needle, hypodermic needle, tack, nail, pin, prick, prickle, spur, rowel, barb, spit, cusp, horn, antler, snag, tag thorn, bristle, Adam's needle, bear grass, tine, yucca, nib, tooth, tusk, spoke, cog, ratchet, crag, crest, arete, cone peak, sugar loaf, pike, aiguille, spire, pyramid, steeple, beard, chevaux de frise, porcupine, hedgehog, brier, bramble, thistle, comb, awn, beggar's lice, bur, burr, catchweed, cleavers, clivers, goose, grass, hairif, hariff, flax comb, hackle, hatchel, heckle, wedge, knife edge, cutting edge, blade, edge tool, cutlery, knife, penknife, whittle, razor, razor blade, safety razor, straight razor, electric razor, scalpel, bistoury, lancet, plowshare, coulter, colter, hatchet, ax, pickax, mattock, pick, adze, gill, billhook, cleaver, cutter, scythe, sickle, scissors, shears, pruning shears, cutters, wire cutters, nail clipper, paper cutter, sword, bodkin, belduque, bowie knife, paring knife, bushwhacker, drawing knife, drawing shave, microtome, chisel, screwdriver blade, flint blade, guillotine, sharpener, hone, strop, grindstone, whetstone, novaculite, steel, emery, sharp, keen, acute, acicular, aciform, aculeated, acuminated, pointed, tapering, conical, pyramidal, mucronate, mucronated, spindle shaped, needle shaped, spiked, spiky, ensiform, peaked, salient, cusped, cuspidate, cuspidated, cornute, cornuted, cornicultate, prickly, spiny, spinous, spicular, thorny, bristling, muricated, pectinated, studded, thistly, briary, craggy, snaggy, digitated, two-edged, fusiform, dentiform, denticulated, toothed, odontoid, starlike, stellated, stelliform, sagittate, sagittiform, arrowheaded, arrowy, barbed, spurred, acinaciform, apiculate, apiculated, aristate, awned, awny, bearded, calamiform, cone-shaped, coniform, crestate, echinate, gladiate, lanceolate, lanciform, awl, awl-shaped, lance-shaped, awl- shaped, scimitar-shaped, sword-shaped, setarious, spinuliferous, subulate, tetrahedral, xiphoid, cutting, sharp edged, knife edged, sharp as a razor, keen as a razor, sharp as a needle, sharp as a tack, sharpened, set.
N sibilance, sibilation, zip, hiss, sternutation, high note, goose, serpent, snake (animal sounds), insect, bug, bee, mosquito, wasp, fly, tea kettle, pressure cooker, air valve, pressure release valve, safety valve, tires, air escaping from tires, punctured tire, escaping steam, steam, steam radiator, steam release valve, sibilant, hissing, wheezy, sternutative.
N fool, idiot, tomfool, wiseacre, simpleton, witling, dizzard, donkey, ass, ninny, ninnyhammer, chowderhead, chucklehead, dolt, booby, Tom Noddy, looby, hoddy-doddy, noddy, nonny, noodle, nizy, owl, goose, goosecap, imbecile, gaby, radoteur, nincompoop, badaud, zany, trifler, babbler, pretty fellow, natural, niais, child, baby, infant, innocent, milksop, sop, oaf, lout, loon, lown, dullard, doodle, calf, colt, buzzard, block, put, stick, stock, numps, tony, bull head, dunderhead, addlehead, blockhead, dullhead, loggerhead, jolthead, jolterhead, beetlehead, beetlebrain, grosshead, muttonhead, noodlehead, giddyhead, numbskull, thickskull, lackbrain, shallowbrain, dimwit, halfwit, lackwit, dunderpate, lunkhead sawney, gowk, clod, clod-hopper, clod-poll, clot-poll, clot-pate, bull calf, gawk, Gothamite, lummox, rube, men of Boeotia, wise men of Gotham, un sot a triple etage, sot, jobbernowl, changeling, mooncalf, gobemouche, dotard, driveler, old fogey, old woman, crock, crone, grandmother, cotquean, henhussy, incompetent (insanity), greenhorn, dunce, lubber, madman, one who will not set the Thames on fire, one who did not invent gunpowder, qui n'a pas invente' la poudre, no conjuror, fortuna favet fatuis, les fous font les festinas et les sages les mangen, nomina stultorum parietibus harrent, stultorum plena sunt omnia.
barnacle goose, blue goose, brand goose, brant goose, brent goose, canada goose, canadian goose, chinese goose, common brant goose, goose barnacle, goose bump, goose bumps, goose down, goose egg, goose grass, goose grease, goose liver, goose pimple, goose pimples, goose plum, goose skin, goose step, graylag goose, greylag goose, mother goose, sea goose, snow goose, solan goose, solant goose, wild goose chase