Definitions for gooses

• Definition
• Anagrams (44)

gooses goose

Spelling: [goos]

IPA: /gus/

Gooses is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 44 anagrams from letters in gooses (egooss).

Definitions for gooses

noun

1. any of numerous wild or domesticated, web-footed swimming birds of the family Anatidae, especially of the genera Anser and Branta, most of which are larger and have a longer neck and legs than the ducks.
2. the female of this bird, as distinguished from the male, or gander.
3. the flesh of a goose, used as food.
4. a silly or foolish person; simpleton.
5. Slang. a poke between the buttocks to startle.
6. Informal. anything that energizes, strengthens, or the like:
7. a tailor's smoothing iron with a curved handle.
8. an obsolete board game played with dice and counters in which a player whose cast falls in a square containing the picture of a goose is allowed to advance double the number of his or her throw.

Idioms

1. cook someone's goose, Informal. to ruin someone's hopes, plans, chances, etc.:

verb (used with object)

1. Slang. to poke (a person) between the buttocks to startle.
2. Informal. to prod or urge to action or an emotional reaction: to strengthen or improve (often followed by up): to increase; raise (often followed by up): to give a spurt of fuel to (a motor) to increase speed.

Origin of gooses

before 1000; Middle English gose, goos, Old English gōs (plural gēs); cognate with German Gans, Old Norse gās; compare Sanskrit haṅsa, Greek chḗn, Latin ānser

Examples for gooses

Outdoor explorer shows featuring real-life people in extreme climates tend to feature Canada goose coats, he noted.

The old soldiers, for some inscrutable reason, go for goose to a man.

Let me goose A&E as they duck for cover over their botched handling of the Phil Robertson mess.

I told Mallet if he would cook a goose, I would tip one over.

I wandered around aimlessly for a while, then gave the goose to an acquiescent hippy on a barge.

According to reports from his salespeople, various Korean celebrities have been spotted in Canada goose products in recent years.

Apples in some form or other are commonly served with goose.

What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander: take that in your thought too.

Cyrus, my advice to you is to go home and tell your wife not to be a goose.

Thus continued a goose chase that produced, well, a goose egg.