goose
鹅,鹅肉,鹅群,鹅的
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Definitions
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plural geese [gees] /gis/ for 1, 2, 4, 8; goos·es for 5-7.
- : any of numerous wild or domesticated, web-footed swimming birds of the family Anatidae, especially of the genera Anser and Branta, most of which are larger and have a longer neck and legs than the ducks.
- : the female of this bird, as distinguished from the male, or gander.
- : the flesh of a goose, used as food.
- : a silly or foolish person; simpleton.
- : Slang. a poke between the buttocks to startle.
- : Informal. anything that energizes, strengthens, or the like: to give the economy a badly needed goose.
- : a tailor's smoothing iron with a curved handle.
- : an obsolete board game played with dice and counters in which a player whose cast falls in a square containing the picture of a goose is allowed to advance double the number of his or her throw.
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goosed, goos·ing.
Phrases
- goose egg
- goose pimples
- cook someone's goose
- gone coon (goose)
- kill the goose that laid the golden eggs
- sauce for the goose
- wild goose chase
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Examples
Sandpipers, owls, loons, and geese all go through smaller migrations.
Under a giant oak tree, I conducted a phone interview without interruption from my office mates — shrieking kids and nasal-y geese.
It’s common to see dozens upon dozens of geese nesting on the side of parkways on Long Island.
Fact is, their goose was cooked by going for 2 at the end of the third quarter to turn down 5 into down 3.
Every year, millions of bar-headed geese migrate over the Himalayas and have been doing so for millions of years.
We had a little goose that was laying golden eggs, and they told us to snip its head off.
I wandered around aimlessly for a while, then gave the goose to an acquiescent hippy on a barge.
One of the men was carrying a carving knife and a live goose.
Finally, Cleese goose-steps out of the dining room as the hapless Germans cringe and sob.
Then, the big goose egg that the administration is going to get from Iran will more obviously be a zip.
To hear the creature talk about it makes my mouth as a brick kiln and my flesh as that of a goose.
The Kutchin make pretty pipe-stems out of goose-quills wound about with porcupine-quills.
The universal desire was for mamma to see him, and when the time came, she owned that papa's swan had not turned out a .