Goose

Definition: Goose

Goose

Noun

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

2. A man who is a stupid fool.

3. Flesh of a goose (domestic or wild).

Date "goose" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Goose \Goose\ (g[=oo]s), noun; plural Geese(g[=e]s). [Old English gos, Anglo-Saxon g[=o]s, plural g[=e]s; akin to Dutch & German gans, Icelandic g[=a]s, Danish gaas, Swedish g[*a]s, Russ. guse. OIr. geiss, Latin anser, for hanser, Greek chh`n, Sanskrit ha[.m]sa. Compare to Gander, Gannet, Ganza, Gosl. (references)

Specialty Definition: Goose

Domain	Definition
Satire	GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various degrees of the bird's intellectual energies and emotional character, so that when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling. The difference in geese, as discovered by this ingenious method, is considerable: many are found to have only trivial and insignificant powers, but some are seen to be very great geese indeed. Source: Devil's Dictionary.
Biographical Satire	GOOSE, Mother, a fine old lady who was loved by all, but who told some awful untruths to the innocent. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914.
Food & Agriculture	Bird in which the tip of the sternum is rigid(ossified); a moderate to thick fat layer is present all over the carcase. Source: European Union. (references)
Literature	Goose A tailor's smoothing-iron; so called because its handle resembles the neck of a goose. "Come in; tailor; here you may roast your goose." - Shakespeare: Macbeth, ii. 3. Ferrara geese. Celebrated for the size of their livers. The French pâte de foie gras, for which Strasbourg is so noted, is not a French invention, but a mere imitation of a well-known dish of classic times. "I wish, gentlemen, it was one of the geese of Ferrara, so much celebrated among the ancients for the magnitude of their livers, one of which is said to have weighed upwards of two pounds. With this food, exquisite as it was, did Heliogabalus regale his hounds." - Smollett: Peregrine Pickle. Wayz Goose. (See Wayz.) I'll cook your goose for you. I'll pay you out. Eric, King of Sweden, coming to a certain town with very few soldiers, the enemy, in mockery, hung out a goose for him to shoot at. Finding, however, that the king meant business, and that it would be no laughing matter for them, they sent heralds to ask him what he wanted. "To cook your goose for you," he facetiously replied. He killed the goose to get the eggs. He grasped at what was more than his due, and lost an excellent customer. The Greek fable says a countryman had a goose that laid golden eggs; thinking to make himself rich, he killed the goose to get the whole stock of eggs at once but lost everything. He steals a goose, and gives the giblets in alms. He amasses wealth by over-reaching, and salves his conscience by giving small sums in charity. The older the goose the harder to pluck. Old men are unwilling to part with their money. The reference is to the custom of plucking live geese for the sake of their quills. Steel pens have put an end to this barbarous custom. To get the goose. To get hissed on the stage. (Theatrical.) What a goose you are. In the Egyptian hieroglyphics the emblem of a vain silly fellow is a goose. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Slang in 1811	GOOSE. A taylor's goose; a smoothing iron used to press down the seams, for which purpose it must be heated: hence it is a jocular saying, that a taylor, be he ever so poor, is always sure to have a goose at his fire. He cannot say boh to a goose; a sayin. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
GOO	English	Goose barnacles(= mushrooms)	Food & Agriculture, Biology & Biotechnology
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Fool	Noun: fool, idiot, tomfool, wiseacre, simpleton, witling, dizzard, donkey, ass; ninny, ninnyhammer; chowderhead, chucklehead; dolt, booby, Tom Noddy, looby, hoddy-doddy, noddy, nonny, noodle, nizy, owl; goose, goosecap; imbecile; gaby; radoteur, nincompoop, badaud, zany; trifler, babbler; pretty fellow; natural, niais.
Sharpness	Beard, chevaux de frise, porcupine, hedgehog, brier, bramble, thistle; comb; awn, beggar's lice, bur, burr, catchweed, cleavers, clivers, goose, grass, hairif, hariff, flax comb, hackle, hatchel, heckle.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom (Laura; writing credit: Vera Caspary; Jay Dratler) I think that's what's good for the goose is good for the gander (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) I am getting goose pimples (Rat Race; writing credit: Andy Breckman) Hey goose, you a half-breed too, huh (Balto; writing credit: David Cohen; Elana Lesser) The goose was right, this fair is rat's paradise (Charlotte's Web; writing credit: E.B. White; Earl Hamner Jr.)
Lyrics	Oh my land is like a wild goose (A Song For You; performing artist: The Drifters; writing credit: Gram Parsons) We fell asleep, our goose is cooked, our reputation is shot ("Wake Up Little Susie"; performing artist: The Everly Brothers) The monkeys in the pentagon are gonna cook our goose (Happy Birthday; performing artist: Weird Al Yankovic)
Tongue Twisters	Gus goes by Blue Goose bus. (references; author: unknown)
Movie/TV Titles	The Goose That Laid a Golden Egg (1974) What's Good for the Goose (1969) Brother Goose (1967) The Magic Land of Mother Goose (1967) Wacky World of Mother Goose (1967)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
References	The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Duck and Goose Poultry (reference) The World Market for Fresh or Chilled Fatty Goose and Duck Livers: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	The Charles Addams Mother Goose (reference) The Real Mother Goose (reference) The Snow Goose (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Blue Goose Flyer (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Father Goose (reference) Richard Scarry's Best Sing-A-Long Mother Goose Video! (reference) Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme (reference) Sesame Street - Mother Goose (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Goose Is Loose (reference) Mother Goose Rocks 4 (reference) Mother Goose Songs (reference) Vol. 1-Mother Goose Rocks (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Midiland Mpfdo1 Omi-Directional Goose Neck Design Microphone (reference) Golden Books - Mother Goose (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Female Canada goose setting on nest. Trying desperately to stay out of sight. Credit: America's Coastlines.		Photo #1 of sequence - The fishing vessel WILD GOOSE tying up. Credit: Fisheries.
	Photo #2 of sequence - The fishing vessel WILD GOOSE tying up. Credit: Fisheries.		Goose Bay, Labrador, Canada. Credit: Geodesy - Measuring the Earth.
	Volunteers put up a goose nest in a restored wetland in Story County, Iowa. Credit: Lynn Betts.		Canada goose in Iowa. Credit: Unknown.
	Canada Goose eggs. Credit: USDA.		Nesting Canada goose. Credit: USDA.
	Lower Goose Creek ReservoirUSRDUpper Snake River District. Credit: Unknown.		Goose nest near Borax Lake. Credit: Scott Moore.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.


"Golden Goose, Las Vegas" by Mary Tamaki Commentary: "Golden Goose, downtown Las Vegas with neon glow at night."	"Goose" by Chris Turner Commentary: "Goose defending nest."
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

Play	Caption	Play	Caption
	Doves cooing; goose squawking; goose honking.		Goose honking.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Aesop	Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find -- nothing.
Cervantes	Why do you lead me a wild goose chase?
Charles Haddon Spurgeon	The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.
Lao-Tzu	The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
Oliver Wendell Holmes	A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not improve.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
A Christmas Carol	Dickens, Charles	There never was such a goose.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Both had wings, one like an angel, the other like a goose.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Symptoms of withdrawal include restlessness, muscle and bone pain, insomnia, diarrhea, vomiting, cold flashes with goose bumps ("cold turkey"), and involuntary leg movements. (references)
		Withdrawal, which in regular abusers may occur as early as a few hours after the last administration, produces drug craving, restlessness, muscle and bone pain, insomnia, diarrhea and vomiting, cold flashes with goose bumps ("cold turkey"), kicking movements ("kicking the habit"), and other symptoms. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. The sentiments and emotions which every literary anatomist now knows to haunt the heart were anciently believed to infest the liver; and even Gascoygne, speaking of the emotional side of human nature, calls it "our hepaticall parte." It was at one time considered the seat of life; hence its name -- liver, the thing we live with. The liver is heaven's best gift to the goose; without it that bird would be unable to supply us with the Strasbourg pate.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	80.77%	336	15,653
Noun (proper)	16.83%	70	39,981
Lexical Verb (base form)	1.2%	5	157,705
Noun (common)	0.96%	4	175,879
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	0.24%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	416	N/A

Expressions using "goose": 75 % goose (seventy five percent) ♦ 82 % goose (eighty two percent) ♦ A wild goose chase ♦ barnacle goose ♦ Bean goose ♦ Bernicle goose ♦ blue goose ♦ Brand goose ♦ brant goose ♦ brent goose ♦ Canada goose ♦ canadian goose ♦ can't say bo to a goose ♦ chandel goose ♦ Channel goose ♦ chinese goose ♦ clack goose ♦ come out in goose flesh ♦ common brant goose ♦ Dunter goose ♦ ember goose ♦ Emperor goose ♦ Fen goose ♦ give one goose flesh ♦ go on a wild goose chase ♦ goose barnacle ♦ goose bump ♦ goose bumps ♦ Goose cap ♦ Goose corn ♦ Goose Creek ♦ goose down ♦ goose egg ♦ Goose feast ♦ Goose flesh ♦ goose giblets ♦ goose grass ♦ goose grease ♦ goose influenza ♦ Goose Lake ♦ goose liver ♦ goose neck ♦ goose pieces ♦ goose pimple ♦ goose pimples ♦ goose plum ♦ Goose quill ♦ goose saw ♦ goose skin ♦ goose step ♦ Goose teal ♦ Goose tongue ♦ grey goose ♦ greylag goose ♦ he came out in goose pimples ♦ i have goose bumps ♦ kill the goose lays the golden eggs ♦ kill the goose that lays golden eggs ♦ kill the goose that lays the golden eggs ♦ Laughing goose ♦ links goose ♦ mother Carey's goose ♦ mother goose ♦ Nile goose ♦ pygmy goose ♦ rain goose ♦ sea goose ♦ send off on a wild goose chase ♦ silly goose ♦ sly goose ♦ snow goose ♦ solan goose ♦ solant goose ♦ Spectacled goose ♦ stubble goose ♦ Swan goose ♦ swim to the bottom like a tailor's goose ♦ Texas goose ♦ Tree goose ♦ ware goose ♦ what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander ♦ wild goose ♦ wild goose chase ♦ young goose. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "goose": goose-breast, goose-bumped, goose-bumps, goose-down, goose-droppings, goose-egg, goose-fat, goose-feather, goose-flesh, goose-girl, goose-grass, goose-grazing, goose-grease, goose-like, goose-liver paste, goose-loke, goose-neck, goose-oh, Goose-pie, goose-pimpled, goose-pimples, goose-pimply, goose-quill, goose-quilled, Goose-rumped, goose-skin, goose-step, goose-stepped, goose-stepping, goose-tansy.
	Ending with "goose": wild-goose.
	Containing "goose": run a wild-goose chase, wild-goose chase.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "goose"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		gans. (various references)

Albanian		patë, mish pate, leshko (coot, dodo, dupe, gander, goon, greener, greenhorn, gudgeon, gullibility, gullible, innocent, loon, lummox, mooncalf, muggins, mutt, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, sap, sap-head, Sawney, simp, simpleton, tom-noddy), hekur rrobaqepësi. (various references)

Arabic		‏وزة, ‏وز, ‏الساذج (dupe, gaby, gull, lamb, loon, mutt, nincompoop, ninny, pigeon, simpleton, villain, zany), ‏أوز (geese). (various references)

Asturian		gansu. (various references)

Bavarian		gans. (various references)

Bemba		ishipi. (various references)

Blackfoot		ómahkssa'áí. (various references)

Bulgarian		гъска, гъша кожа (gooseflesh, gooseskin, horripilation, prickle), вид шивашка ютия. (various references)

Cebuano		gansa. (various references)

Chamorro		ganso. (various references)

Chinese		鹅 (Geese), 鵝 . (various references)

Cornish		góth. (various references)

Czech		husí maso, husa. (various references)

Danish		gås. (various references)

Dutch		gans (entire, integral, overall, whole). (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua		gansu. (various references)

Esperanto		ansero. (various references)

Faeroese		gás. (various references)

Farsi		ماده غاز, مثل غازحمله ورشدن وغدغدکردن , هیس (Shush), قاز, گوشت غاز, غاز (Venue), سیخ زدن به شخص , ساده لوح واحمق , علامت سکوت , اتوکردن (Iron), اتو (Iron), به کفل کسی سقلمه زدن . (various references)

Finnish		hanhi (goose gander). (various references)

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	anser. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
goose mongolian	6,119	mother goose nursery rhyme	69
goose	1,541	goose creek isd	64
canada goose	1,040	goose island	64
mother goose	825	goose bay	57
goose decoy	776	goose clothes	57
goose hunting	717	goose creek symphony	56
goose call	685	grumman goose	48
goose down	560	blue goose	43
goose creek sc	496	mother goose rhyme	41
bay canada goose	348	flying goose	39
spruce goose	287	goose bump	36
canadian goose	278	african goose	34
grey goose	199	goose bay labrador	31
grey goose vodka	142	goose control	28
wild goose	102	claire goose	27
goose creek	97	goose hummock	27
goose down comforter	90	goose down pillow	27
mother goose grimm	83	from goose lesson	27
snow goose	82	goose lake	26
goose picture	79	cool goose	26
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "goose": gooseberries, gooseberry, goosed, goosefish, goosefishes, gooseflesh, goosefleshes, goosefoot, goosefoots, goosegrass, goosegrasses, gooseneck, goosenecked, goosenecks, gooses, goosey. (additional references)
	Words ending with "goose": mongoose, mungoose. (additional references)
	Words containing "goose": mongooses, mungooses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Goose" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: foose, Ghodse, Giosan, gloose, glosi, goace, goaze, goboes, Gobseck, Goce, Gocek, gogos, goize, goke, gooc, gooe, gooet, goofe, googe, gooie, goole, goone, goore, goos, goosegog, Goosen, gooser, goosh, goosie, goost, goosteli, gooti, goove, gooz, gooze, Gosau, gose, gosel, gosep, goser, goset, goshe, Gosio, goste, gosu, gotos, gotsa, Gotse, Gotsev, gouse, gousi, gouz, gowse, goxe, goye, goza, goze, Gozem, Gqoza, grose, gusa, Gusau, Guse, gusee, gusle, Guzev, Gyoezoe, gyoza, joose, ogoe, ogooue, oose, osoe, woose. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "goose" (pronounced guw"s)
2	-uw" s	abstruse, abuse, caboose, coos, deduce, Deuce, diffuse, disabuse, disuse, Duce, excuse, induce, introduce, juice, loose, Luce, misuse, moose, mousse, noose, obtuse, overproduce, produce, profuse, recluse, reduce, reintroduce, reproduce, reuse, seduce, sluice, Spruce, truce, use.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-g-o-o-s"
	-1 letter: egos, goes, goos, sego.
	-2 letters: ego, goo, gos, oes, ose, seg.
	-3 letters: es, go, oe, os, so.
	Words containing the letters "e-g-o-o-s"
	+1 letter: goboes, goosed, gooses, goosey, stooge.
	+2 letters: bongoes, boogers, boogeys, boogies, congoes, forgoes, gentoos, globose, goloshe, goobers, goodies, gooiest, gooneys, goonies, goosier, grooves, hognose, isogone, mongoes, nonegos, noodges, ologies, orgones, outgoes, regosol, scrooge, stooged, stooges.
	+3 letters: beglooms, bootlegs, colognes, dogedoms, doggones, doghouse, footages, foregoes, forgoers, geognosy, goloshes, goodbyes, goodness, goofiest, googlies, goopiest, goosiest, gorgeous, groomers, groovers, grottoes, hognoses, hoosegow, ionogens, isogones, isologue, legrooms, longsome, mongoose, moorages, mungoose, oogamies, oogenies, oologies, oreganos, overdogs, prognose, regosols, regrooms, rootages, scrooges, serology, sexology, stegodon, theologs, zoogleas.
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Goose

Definition: Goose

Goose

Noun

Specialty Definition: Goose

Specialty Definition: Goose

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Goose

Synonyms: Goose

Synonyms within Context: Goose

Fool

Sharpness

Crosswords: Goose

Modern Usage: Goose

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Familiar Quotations: Goose

Aesop

Cervantes

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Lao-Tzu

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Use in Literature: Goose

A Christmas Carol

Dickens, Charles

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Non-Fiction Usage: Goose

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Usage Frequency: Goose

Expressions: Goose

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Goose

Modern Translation: Goose

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