Definition of goose

"goose" in the noun sense

1. goose

web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic than ducks

2. fathead, goof, goofball, bozo, jackass, goose, cuckoo, twat, zany

a man who is a stupid incompetent fool

3. goose

flesh of a goose (domestic or wild)

"goose" in the verb sense

1. goose

pinch in the buttocks

"he goosed the unsuspecting girl"

2. goose

prod into action

3. goose

give a spurt of fuel to

"goose the car"

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Quotations for goose

Good goose, don't bite. [ Proverb ]

To run the wild goose chase. [ Proverb ]

Such a reason pissed my goose. [ Proverb ]

You find fault with a fat goose. [ Proverb ]

As is the gander, so is the goose. [ Proverb ]

In days of yore, the poet's pen
From wing of bird was plundered.
Perhaps of goose, but now and then,
From Jove's own eagle sundered.
But now, metallic pens disclose
Alone the poet's numbers;
In iron inspiration glows,
Or with the poet slumbers. [ John Quincy Adams ]

Let every tailor keep to his goose. [ Proverb ]

Let there be gall enough in thy ink,
Though thou write with a goose-pen. [ William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act III. Sc. 2 ]

Three women and a goose make a market. [ Proverb ]

Tittle-tattle, give the goose more hay. [ Proverb ]

As deep drinks the goose as the gander. [ Proverb ]

Feather by feather, the goose is plucked. [ Proverb ]

Young is the goose that will not eat oats. [ Proverb ]

Shall the goslings teach the goose to swim? [ Proverb ]

By fits and girts, as an ague takes a goose. [ Proverb ]

We desire but one feather out of your goose. [ Proverb ]

Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. [ Proverb ]

Gone is the goose that the great egg did lay. [ Proverb ]

There swims no goose so gray, but soon or late
She finds some honest gander for her mate. [ Pope ]

It is a sorry goose that will not baste itself. [ Proverb ]

Set the hare's head against the goose's giblets. [ Proverb ]

You are a pretty fellow to ride a goose a gallop. [ Proverb ]

It is a silly goose that comes to a fox's sermon. [ Proverb ]

What is sauce for the goose is sauce for a gander. [ Tom Brown ]

A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial. [ Proverb ]

A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion's claw. [ Proverb ]

You are come of good blood, and so is goose-pudding. [ Proverb ]

It is a blind goose that knows not a fox from a fern-bush. [ Proverb ]

When a goose dances, and a fool versifies, there is sport. [ Proverb ]

Fools are all the world over, as he said that shod the goose. [ Proverb ]

As great pity to see a woman cry, as to see a goose go barefoot. [ Proverb ]

The friar preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The friar preached against theft, when he had a goose in his sleeve. [ Proverb ]

It is no more sin to see a woman weep, than to see a goose go barefoot. [ Proverb ]

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. [ Holmes ]

Quills are things that are sometimes taken from the pinions of one goose to spread the opinions of another. [ Chatfield ]

The nightingale, if she should sing by day, when every goose is cackling, would be thought no better a musician than the wren. How many things by season seasoned are to their right praise and true perfection! [ Shakespeare ]

goose in Scrabble®

The word goose is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters goose:

GOOSE
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goose in Words With Friends™

The word goose is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters goose:

GOOSE
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Words within the letters of goose

2 letter words in goose (3 words)

3 letter words in goose (3 words)

4 letter words in goose (3 words)

5 letter words in goose (1 word)

goose + 1 blank (3 words)

Word Growth involving goose

Shorter words in goose

go goo goos

os goos

Longer words containing goose

gooseberries

gooseberry

goosebump goosebumps

goosed

goosefish goosefishes

gooseflesh goosefleshes

gooseflower gooseflowers

goosefoot goosefoots

goosegirl goosegirls

goosegob goosegobs

goosegog goosegogs

goosegrass goosegrasses

gooseherd gooseherds

gooselike

gooseneck goosenecked

gooseneck goosenecks

goosepimply

gooses goosestep goosestepped

gooses goosestep goosestepping

gooses goosestep goosesteps

gooses mongooses

mongoose mongooses