Definition of Goose

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Definition of Goose

Goose

Any large web-footen bird of the subfamily Anserinae, and belonging to Anser, Branta, Chen, and several allied genera. See Anseres.

Any large bird of other related families, resembling the common goose.

A tailor's smoothing iron, so called from its handle, which resembles the neck of a goose.

A silly creature; a simpleton.

A game played with counters on a board divided into compartments, in some of which a goose was depicted.

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Goose Quotations

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.
Charles Spurgeon

I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
Clarence Darrow

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
Laozi

Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.
Aldo Leopold

The buzz is still with me. I get goose bumps.
David Beckham

A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.
Thomas Fuller

Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.
Benjamin Tucker

Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully.
Gyorgy Ligeti

The Brady Bunch is a live action modern fairytale of family. In this context it's less odd that it's lasted for over thirty years; and why it may last in some respects as long as Mother Goose!
Christopher Knight

Goose Translations

goose in Dutch is gans
goose in Finnish is hanhi
goose in French is oie
goose in German is Gans
goose in Italian is oca
goose in Latin is anser
goose in Portuguese is ganso
goose in Spanish is oca, ganso

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