Meaning of ganderling | Babel Free

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A young gander (male goose).

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“Can any of our readers give this correspondent the name applied to a young gander? Some one has suggested that, since a young goose is a gosling (goose-ling) a young gander should be a ganderling.”

“Last spring Si found a goose egg twice as big as the regulation goose egg and he put it under the Mrs. Goose when she was ready to set. The result was just as Si had expected, for when the month was up and Si raised up one section of Mrs. Goose to take a peep underneath her he saw two of the finest ganderlings that he had ever had the pleasure of setting before his eyes.”

“Joseph Stelmach, still another Daytonian, is represented by two lithographs, Korean in inspiration: “Child With Basket” and “Ganderlings.””

“From all the various and fanciful stories we’ve heard over the years on sexing ducklings and goslings, the only certain information we’ve obtained is that Pilgrim geese can be color-sexed from the day they hatch. In this breed, the down of the ganderling is yellow while the young female is greyish.”

“What's got me bothered is that I have the opposite situation -- 3 hatched and survived (well, this long, going on 2 months for the oldest), but I've got one goose and 2 ganderlings.”

“gosling: Generically, the young of geese, up to one year of age. If it is necessary to distinguish gender at this stage, I suppose you could use “ganderling” for the male and “gosling” for the female, though such usage is not supported by any dictionary I know of.”

“Each offered a silent cacophony of resentments, strung like lead fishing weights during Lent, neither above or below each other, harnessed together, one giant thunder-thigh, a formidable but useless pair of ganderlings, not unlike those mentioned by the prophets at a guess-your-weight kiosk at high mass.”

“I purchased this to show her [my daughter] and my grandchildren places similar to where I grew up and some of the gentle ways one could feel about a turkey... like we felt about Gozzy Ganderling Whitefeathers, the gosling she brought home.”

“Egyptian ganderling / 10 months old / 🤍”

“I have a craigslist brown gander that is supposed to be from the hatchery, and a craigslist heritage unknown brown African goose with a white chest (pictured in a previous crossbreed thread.) They had 5 ganderlings and 1 girl.”

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