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    GOOSE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

    Irregular inflected form: geese  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

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

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("goose" is a kind of...):

    anseriform bird (chiefly web-footed swimming birds)

    Meronyms (parts of "goose"):

    goose down (down of the goose)

    goose (flesh of a goose (domestic or wild))

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "goose"):

    gosling (young goose)

    gander (mature male goose)

    Anser cygnoides; Chinese goose (very large wild goose of northeast Asia; interbreeds freely with the greylag)

    Anser anser; graylag; graylag goose; greylag; greylag goose (common grey wild goose of Europe; ancestor of many domestic breeds)

    blue goose; Chen caerulescens (North American wild goose having dark plumage in summer but white in winter)

    brant; brant goose; brent; brent goose (small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate southward)

    Branta canadensis; Canada goose; Canadian goose; honker (common greyish-brown wild goose of North America with a loud, trumpeting call)

    barnacle; barnacle goose; Branta leucopsis (European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north)

    Holonyms ("goose" is a member of...):

    Anatidae; family Anatidae (swimming birds having heavy short-legged bodies and bills with a horny tip: swans; geese; ducks)

    gaggle (a flock of geese)

    Derivation:

    gosling (young goose)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    Flesh of a goose (domestic or wild)play

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting foods and drinks

    Hypernyms ("goose" is a kind of...):

    poultry (flesh of chickens or turkeys or ducks or geese raised for food)

    Holonyms ("goose" is a part of...):

    goose (web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic than ducks)

    Sense 3

    Meaning:

    A man who is a stupid incompetent foolplay

    Synonyms:

    bozo; cuckoo; fathead; goof; goofball; goose; jackass; twat; zany

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting people

    Hypernyms ("goose" is a kind of...):

    fool; muggins; sap; saphead; tomfool (a person who lacks good judgment)

    Derivation:

    goosey; goosy (having or revealing stupidity)

     II. (verb) 

    Verb forms

    Present simple: I / you / we / they goose  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it gooses  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Past simple: goosed  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Past participle: goosed  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    -ing form: goosing  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Give a spurt of fuel toplay

    Example:

    goose the car

    Classified under:

    Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

    Hypernyms (to "goose" is one way to...):

    pump (operate like a pump; move up and down, like a handle or a pedal)

    Sentence frame:

    Somebody ----s something

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    Prod into actionplay

    Classified under:

    Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

    Hypernyms (to "goose" is one way to...):

    egg on; incite; prod (urge on; cause to act)

    Sentence frame:

    Somebody ----s somebody

    Sense 3

    Meaning:

    Pinch in the buttocksplay

    Example:

    he goosed the unsuspecting girl

    Classified under:

    Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

    Hypernyms (to "goose" is one way to...):

    nip; pinch; squeeze; tweet; twinge; twitch (squeeze tightly between the fingers)

    Sentence frames:

    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody

    Credits

     Context examples: 

    The report had scarcely died away ere it was repeated and repeated from without in a scattering volley, shot behind shot, like a string of geese, from every side of the enclosure.

    (Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

    These symptoms include restlessness, muscle and bone pain, diarrhea and vomiting, and cold flashes with goose bumps.

    (Heroin, NIH: National Institute on Drug Abuse)

    The small bundles of smooth muscle connected to hair follicles that cause the hair to stand straight creating 'goose bumps.'

    (Erector Muscle of the Hair, NCI Thesaurus)

    From the beginning he has never concealed his belief that Professor Challenger is an absolute fraud, that we are all embarked upon an absurd wild-goose chase and that we are likely to reap nothing but disappointment and danger in South America, and corresponding ridicule in England.

    (The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

    Great rounds of beef, saddles of mutton, smoking tongues, veal and ham pies, turkeys and chickens, and geese, with every variety of vegetables, and a succession of fiery cherries and heavy ales were the main staple of the feast.

    (Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

    “Sold out of geese, I see,” continued Holmes, pointing at the bare slabs of marble.

    (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

    So they had to spend the night with the goose.

    (Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

    "It's all right. Get up, and don't be a goose, Jo," was the cavalier reply to her petition.

    (Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

    From each man's girdle hung sword or axe, according to his humor, and over the right hip there jutted out the leathern quiver with its bristle of goose, pigeon, and peacock feathers.

    (The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

    We made merry about Dora's wanting to be liked, and Dora said I was a goose, and she didn't like me at any rate, and the short evening flew away on gossamer-wings.

    (David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)


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