Goose

Noun

 * 1) Any of various grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae, bigger than a duck
 * There is a flock of geese on the pond.
 * 1)  A stupid person
 * 2)  A tailor's iron, heated in live coals or embers, used to press fabrics.
 * 3) * Scene 3:
 * Come in, tailor. Here you may roast your goose.
 * Come in, tailor. Here you may roast your goose.

Synonyms

 * goose iron

Derived terms

 * gooseneck
 * goose egg
 * goose pimple
 * goose-step
 * one's goose is cooked
 * Mother Goose
 * what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander

Verb

 * 1)  To sharply poke or pinch someone's buttocks. Derived from a goose's inclination to bite at a retreating intruder's hindquarters.
 * 2)  To gently accelerate an automobile or machine, or give repeated small taps on the accelerator.
 * 3)  Of private-hire taxi drivers, to pick up a passenger who has not pre-booked a cab.  This is unauthorised under UK licensing conditions.

Verbs for Goose
—attacks; —braves; —cackles; —captures; —circles; —clasps; —cleaves sky; —climbs; —destroys; —dives; —drives; —drops; — eyes; —floats through; —hawks; —hooks; —moults; —perches; —preys on; —robs; —sails; —screams; geese sever themselves; —sights ; —soars; —sweeps.

Thesaurus
Bantam, Cornish hen, banty, barn-door fowl, barnyard fowl, biddy, broiler, brooder, broody hen, caille, canard, caneton, capon, chanticleer, chapon, chick, chickabiddy, chicken, chicky, cock, cockerel, dindon, domestic fowl, drake, duck, duckling, dunghill fowl, faisan, fowl, fryer, game fowl, gander, gobbler, gosling, grouse, guinea cock, guinea fowl, guinea hen, hen, hen turkey, oie, partlet, partridge, pheasant, pigeon, pigeonneau, poulard, poulet, poult, poultry, pullet, quail, roaster, rooster, setting hen, silly, silly Billy, silly ass, spring chicken, squab, stewing chicken, tom, tom turkey, turkey, turkey gobbler, turkey-cock, volaille, wild duck

Etymology
gōs, from (compare West Frisian goes:, Dutch gans:, German Gans:, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish gås:), from  (compare Irish gé:, Latin anser:, Latvian zoss:, Russian гусь:, Albanian gatë:, Ancient Greek χήν:, Avestan 𐬰𐬁:, Sanskrit हंस:.

Noun

 * Albanian:
 * Aleut: la-yik
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri:
 * Bashkir:
 * Basque: antzara
 * Belarusian:
 * Bengali:
 * Bosnian: ,
 * Breton: gwaz
 * Bulgarian: гъска (g"ska)
 * Catalan: oca
 * Chechen:
 * Chinese: 鹅 (é)
 * Choctaw:
 * Chuvash:
 * Cornish: goedh
 * Crimean Tatar:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dolgan:
 * Dutch:
 * Erzya: мацей (macej), гала (gala), дига (diga)
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: ocje
 * Gagauz:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient:
 * Modern: χήνα
 * Hebrew: אווז
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: gæs (aligæs)
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: ansere, oca
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 鵝鳥
 * Kalmyk:
 * Karachay-Balkar:
 * Karakalpak:
 * Kazakh: қаз
 * Khakas:
 * Korean: 기러기 (gireogi, 雁) (for wildlife), 거위 (geowi, 鵝) (for poultry)
 * Kumyk:
 * Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Ladin: aucia
 * Lao: (haan)
 * Latin: anser, avica (late Latin)
 * Scientific Latinized genera: Anser, Branta, Chen, Cereopsis


 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Low Saxon: Goos
 * Macedonian: гуска
 * Maltese:
 * Mongolian:
 * Navajo:
 * Neapolitan: pàpara
 * Nogai:
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan: auca
 * Old English:
 * Old Irish:
 * Ossetian:
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romani: gansako, papin
 * Romanian: gâscă, gânsac
 * Romansch: auca
 * Russian: гусь
 * Sami: čuonjá
 * Sardinian: coca, oca
 * Scottish Gaelic: gèadh
 * Serbian:
 * Shor:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: gos, gosak
 * Southern Altai:
 * Spanish: ganso (usually wild), oca (farm goose), ánsar (rather a formal/zoological word)
 * Sundanese: soang
 * Swahili: bata bukini
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: gansa
 * Tamil: வாத்து (vāttu)
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu: బాతు (baathu)
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:
 * Tuvan:
 * Udmurt:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Upper Sorbian: huso (hus), husyca
 * Uzbek: gʻoz
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: gan,  higan,  jigan,  ganül,  higanül,  jiganül
 * Welsh: gŵydd
 * West Frisian: goes
 * Yakut:
 * Yiddish:
 * Zulu: i(li)hansi