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goose

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1. goose - Noun

2. goose - Verb

3. Goose - Proper noun

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose. Clarence Darrow

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

Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to findnothing. Aesop

A wild goose never reared a tame gosling. Irish Proverb

You must walk a long while behind a wild goose before you find an ostrich feather. Danish Proverb

Feather by feather a goose is plucked. American Proverb

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