Anserine

Definition: Anserine

Anserine

Adjective

1. (zoology) of or resembling a goose.

2. (informal) having or revealing stupidity; "ridiculous anserine behavior"; "a dopey answer"; "a dopey kid"; "some fool idea about rewriting authors' books".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Etymology: Anserine \An"ser*ine\, adjective. [Latin expression anserinus, from anser goose.]. (references)

Synonyms: Anserine

Crosswords: Anserine

Albanian

i patokut (anserous), budalla (anserous, asinine, ass, blunderhead, booby, brainless, cabbage-head, chuckle-head, clod, cloddish, clod-poll, cockeyed, daft, dense, Dick, dim witted, dimwit, dumb, dumbbell, fathead, fool, gaby, gaga, goof, goofy, goon, Goosey, gowk, half wit, idiot, idle-headed, imbecile, jobbernowl, jolterhead, josser, juggins, loon, mindless, moke, muff, mutton head, mutton-headed, nerd, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, nut, owl, pin head, pumpkin-head, sheep's head, silly, slow witted, softhead, soft-headed, softy, spoony, stupid, tomfool, tom-noddy, witless). (various references)

Arabic 

‏أوزى. (various references)

Bulgarian 

гъши, глупав (asinine, blackhearted, blithering, blockish, blunt, brainless, cockscomb, crass, daft, dense, dim witted, dopey, dopy, dozy, fat, fatuous, flat-footed, fool, foolish, footless, footling, goofy, hebetate, inane, inept, irrational, lame brain, lumpish, lunatic, mindless, mutton-headed, nonsensical, off one's nut, piffling, puddingy, puerile, purblind, sappy, senseless, silly, simple, slow witted, stockish, stupid, thick, thick-skulled, thick-witted, tomfool, trumpery, unintelligent, unwise, vacant, vacuous, whacked, witless, wooden-headed), настръхнал (erect, horrent). (various references)

Danish

anserin. (various references)

Dutch

anserine, metylcarnosine, methylcarnosine, beta-analyl-I-methylhistidine, beta-analyl-I-etylhistidine. (various references)

Finnish

anseriini. (various references)

French

ansérine. (various references)

German

Anserin. (various references)

Greek 

ανσερίνη. (various references)

Hebrew 

אוזי (goose-loke), טפשי (dim witted, foolish, senseless, silly, stupid, thickheaded, witless). (various references)

Hungarian

liba (geese, goose, goosey, goosey-gander, goosey-goosey), buta (addled, blunt, bovine, brainless, dead above the ears, dim-witted, doltish, dull, dumb, fatuous, foolish, loggerheaded, mindless, silly, simple minded, stupid, to be out of one's skull, unwise, zombie). (various references)

Italian

anserina. (various references)

Pig Latin

anserineay.(various references)

Portuguese

anserino, anserina (pigweed), relativo a gansos. (various references)

Russian 

гусиный, глупый (apish, asinine, barmy, beef-witted, blockish, bovine, brain dead, brainless, cloddish, daft, dense, doddery, drippy, fatuous, fat-witted, featherbrain, featherbrained, feather-brained, foolish, gaga, goofy, harebrained, idle-headed, inane, inept, mindless, mutton-headed, nitwitted, nonsensical, oafish, sappy, silly, simple-minded, soft-headed, spoony, stupid, thickskulled, thick-skulled, thick-witted, timber-headed, unwise, wooden-headed). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

luckast (comical, crack-brained, dotty, light-headed, silly), glup (asinine, brainless, calvish, cloddish, dense, dozy, dull, dumb, fat-witted, jerk, obtuse, sheepish, silly, stupid, unintelligent). (various references)

Spanish

anserina (Good King Henry, perennial goosefoot), ansarino (Gosling), estúpido (addle-brained, addle-head, addle-pated, asinine, blockhead, blunderhead, bone head, brainless, coot, crass, dense, dim witted, donkey, dull, dullard, idiot, idiotic, lame brain, lumpish, obtuse, rattle-brained, rattle-headed, senseless, soft, stupe, stupid). (various references)

Swedish

anserin. (various references)

Turkish

kaz kafalı (goose), kaz ile ilgili, kaz gibi. (various references)

Ukrainian

гусячий, дурний (asinine, balmy, bat-minded, bovine, cloddish, cracked, daft, dense, fatuous, featherbrained, fool, foolish, gawky, goofy, harebrained, idle-headed, mindless, mutton-headed, nonsensical, oafish, obtuse, opaque, owlish, pigheaded, sappy, sottish, spoony, stockish, stupid, thoughtless). (various references)

Vietnamese 

như lo� i ngỗng ngu si, ngớ ngẩn (blunder, dotty, dumb, muddle-headed, muddy-headed, sap-headed, sappy, sillily, silly), đần độn (blear-eyed, blockish, boeotian, brutish, chuckle-headed, cock-eyed, doltish, fat-headed, fatuous, fat-witted, feather-brained, feather-headed, feather-pate, feather-pated, muddle-headed, muddy-headed, pigheaded, puddingy, purblind, slow-witted, stupid, thick-headed, thick-skulled, thick-witted, unapprehensive, witless). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "anserine": anserines. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Anserine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aneirin, angerine, Angevine, Ankerdine, Anserinae, ansiminic, Aserbine, Enserune, Nasirdin, Nasserein, nazarine, nerine. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ensnare, insaner, insnare, rennase.

-2 letters: aeries, arisen, arsine, easier, inaner, inanes, inners, insane, narine, nereis, ranees, renins, seiner, serein, serine, sienna, sinner.

-3 letters: aerie, airns, anise, arise, earns, erase, ernes, inane, inner, nares, naris, nears, nenes, nines, rains, raise, ranee, ranis, reins, renin, resin, rinse, risen, saner, saree, sarin, seine, senna, serai, serin.

+1 letter: anserines, canneries, narceines, tanneries.

+2 letters: argentines, entertains, entrainers, grenadines, innervates, nectarines, perennials, refinances, regnancies, serenading, swanneries, tangerines, tenantries, transience.

+3 letters: adrenalines, ancientries, angrinesses, aventurines, barkentines, centenaries, creatinines, dinnerwares, enantiomers, enervations, enfranchise, generations, grandnieces, incinerates, inerrancies, innumerates, intenerates, intercensal, internalise, nitrogenase, prefinances, pregnancies, ranginesses, reascending, refastening, reinsurance, renaissance, renominates, renunciates, reseasoning, transiences, unreadiness, venerations.