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Goose

noun

(pl. geese)

Web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic than ducks.

A man who is a stupid incompetent fool. Synonyms: bozo, cuckoo, fathead, goof, goofball, jackass, twat, zany.

Flesh of a goose (domestic or wild).

verb

Pinch in the buttocks.

Prod into action.

Give a spurt of fuel to.

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"Goose" Quotes from Famous Books

... a ship sets out from San Francisco without publishing to all the world just what her business is, all the world thinks it's one of those wild-goose hunts," ...

— The Mystery • Stewart Edward White and Samuel Hopkins Adams

... her face was like the full moon; her voice like the sound of the cuckoo; her throat was like that of a pigeon; her loins narrow, like those of a lion; her hair hung in curls down to her feet; her teeth were like the seeds of the pomegranate; and her gait like that of a drunken elephant or a goose. ...

— Primitive Love and Love-Stories • Henry Theophilus Finck

... while for to git mad about de matter— Massa Will say noffin at all aint de matter wid him—but den what make him go about looking dis here way, wid he head down and he soldiers up, and as white as a goose? And den he keep a syphon all ...

— Stories by Modern American Authors • Julian Hawthorne

... lower East River. Mr. Haight was a wrinkled old man with a bald scalp covered with numerous brown patches about the size of ten-cent pieces. A fringe of white hair hung about his ears, over one of which was stuck a goose-quill pen. He looked up from his desk as I entered ...

— The Confessions of Artemas Quibble • Arthur Train

... boyish years history and tradition are equally silent. Long after his death, indeed, some idle stories became current, as their fashion is, of prophecies and prodigies in that early time. His nurse is said to have foretold that a river taking its name from a goose would prove fatal to him, and to have lamented that her child's career of glory had been frustrated because he had been checked in the act of devouring a live toad. This last story sounds much like a popular version of ...

— Claverhouse • Mowbray Morris

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