Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling or characteristic of a goose.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having or revealing stupidity

Etymologies

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goose +‎ -like

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Examples

  • All the riders ooohed and ahhhed as the gooselike bird poked around in the bushes, looking for something to eat.

    Beacon Street Girls: Ready! Set! Hawaii! Annie Bryant 2009

  • All the riders ooohed and ahhhed as the gooselike bird poked around in the bushes, looking for something to eat.

    Beacon Street Girls: Ready! Set! Hawaii! Annie Bryant 2009

  • All the riders ooohed and ahhhed as the gooselike bird poked around in the bushes, looking for something to eat.

    Beacon Street Girls: Ready! Set! Hawaii! Annie Bryant 2009

  • All the riders ooohed and ahhhed as the gooselike bird poked around in the bushes, looking for something to eat.

    Beacon Street Girls: Ready! Set! Hawaii! Annie Bryant 2009

  • The aagronis shirt was stuffed with the Vhiliinyar equivalent of rabbits, squirrels, chipmunks, and a large bird, a gooselike creature which had fouled or perhaps fowled? the inside of the aagroni's ship-suit.

    Acorna's Search McCaffrey, Anne 2001

  • The aagronis shirt was stuffed with the Vhiliinyar equivalent of rabbits, squirrels, chipmunks, and a large bird, a gooselike creature which had fouled or perhaps fowled? the inside of the aagroni's ship-suit.

    Acorna's Search McCaffrey, Anne 2001

  • And yet there was something gooselike about the babble that came from his mouth.

    Heartfire Card, Orson Scott 1998

  • These large, colorful, gooselike birds are noted for their beautiful, cheerful whistle.

    5 Chicken 1991

  • One of the older men, raising his neck, gooselike, up out of his denim, took it upon himself to extend the courtesy of a reply.

    Skinny Legs and All Robbins, Tom 1990

  • As Dwyer spoke, Adams constantly fidgeted in his seat and made repeated gooselike noises.

    The Observer-Dispatch Home RSS 2008

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