Goose
Any large web-footen bird of the subfamily Anserinae, and belonging to Anser, Branta, Chen, and several allied genera. See Anseres.
Any large bird of other related families, resembling the common goose.
A tailor's smoothing iron, so called from its handle, which resembles the neck of a goose.
A silly creature; a simpleton.
A game played with counters on a board divided into compartments, in some of which a goose was depicted.
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Goose Quotations
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
Lao Tzu
The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.
Charles Spurgeon
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
Clarence Darrow
The buzz is still with me. I get goose bumps.
David Beckham
Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.
Aldo Leopold
A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.
Thomas Fuller
Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully.
Gyorgy Ligeti
The Brady Bunch is a live action modern fairytale of family. In this context it's less odd that it's lasted for over thirty years; and why it may last in some respects as long as Mother Goose!
Christopher Knight
Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. Anyway, more people like scrambled eggs than caviar.
Lee Loevinger
Goose Translations
goose in Dutch is gans
goose in Finnish is hanhi
goose in French is oie
goose in German is Gans
goose in Italian is oca
goose in Latin is anser
goose in Portuguese is ganso
goose in Spanish is oca, ganso
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