Definitions for geese

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Spelling: [gees]

IPA: /gis/

Geese is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 16 anagrams from letters in geese (eeegs).

Definitions for geese

noun

1. a plural of goose.
2. 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.
3. the female of this bird, as distinguished from the male, or gander.
4. the flesh of a goose, used as food.
5. a silly or foolish person; simpleton.
6. Slang. a poke between the buttocks to startle.
7. Informal. anything that energizes, strengthens, or the like:
8. a tailor's smoothing iron with a curved handle.
9. 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 geese

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 geese

Well, then I'll tend to my geese and tend 'em good, so I will.

They were not going to behave like a couple of geese he hoped!

Nut oils are expensive and go south faster than geese in winter.

And who's to be moindin' the geese, if you and Tommie was to go off after the cows?

“That is very good advice if you happen to be attacked by a flock of geese,” Cruz said to laughs.

Well,” Orlean adds upon taking stock of this impressive roster, “there may be some geese soon, too.

geese and black ducks, making their way to the southward, were met with daily.

She was passionately fond of geese, of which she had a large flock.

Buy them—nut oils, that is, not geese—in small quantities and use them quickly.

A woody hillside, populated by my pet chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, and guinea fowl, trying to find their missing feathers.