Meaning of goose | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. 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 generally bigger than ducks.
   countable, uncountable
3. A female goose.
   countable, uncountable
4. The flesh of the goose used as food.
   countable, uncountable
5. A silly person.
   countable, slang, uncountable
6. A tailor's iron, heated in live coals or embers, used to press fabrics.
   archaic, countable, uncountable
7. A young woman or girlfriend.
   South-Africa, countable, dated, slang, uncountable
8. An old English board game in which players moved counters along a board, earning a double move when they reached the picture of a goose.
   historical, uncountable

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Examples

“There is a flock of geese on the pond.”

“The goose, reputed to possess high generative power, was sacred to Priapus.”

“A group of geese is called a gaggle.”

“Ganders and geese are at their best for stock from two to ten years old. They live to a great age—it is stated to thirty or more years—but after ten years they cannot be reckoned upon as reliable assets on a farm. Two years old is the best age to mate them, making up pens of a gander and two or three geese at the New Year. It is difficult sometimes to distinguish ganders from geese. A practical man is, however, rarely mistaken.”

“Mrs. Cratchit made the gravy (ready beforehand in a little saucepan) hissing hot; Master Peter mashed the potatoes with incredible vigour; Miss Belinda sweetened up the apple-sauce; Martha dusted the hot plates; Bob took Tiny Tim beside him in a tiny corner at the table; the two young Cratchits set chairs for everybody, not forgetting themselves, and mounting guard upon their posts, crammed spoons into their mouths, lest they should shriek for goose before their turn came to be helped.”

“I'm sorry for you, but you're such a goose.”

“Have you stopped to think, you gooses, that Andy might not wish you to give it away?”

“You gooses. I didn’t accept his proposal. Mrs Plackett did. She did because she would. Don’t you see?”

“Surely I needn’t explain to you gooses that none of you, not even you, Caro, have the sort of dowry or connections or the appeal that such a match would require.”

“Come in, tailor. Here you may roast your goose.”

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