Definition of gooses in English

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gooses, verb, present, 3rd person singular of goose (infinitive).
gooses, noun, plural of goose.

WordNet

Noun Plural: geese
goose - web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic than ducks
		anseriform bird chiefly web-footed swimming birds
		anatidae, family anatidae swimming birds having heavy short-legged bodies and bills with a horny tip: swans; geese; ducks
		gaggle a flock of geese
		gosling young goose
		gander mature male goose
		anser cygnoides, chinese goose very large wild goose of northeast Asia; interbreeds freely with the greylag
		anser anser, graylag, graylag goose, greylag, greylag goose common grey wild goose of Europe; ancestor of many domestic breeds
		blue goose, chen caerulescens North American wild goose having dark plumage in summer but white in winter
		brant, brant goose, brent, brent goose small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate southward
		branta canadensis, canada goose, canadian goose, honker common greyish-brown wild goose of North America with a loud, trumpeting call
		barnacle goose, branta leucopsis, barnacle European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north
		goose down down of the goose
goose - flesh of a goose (domestic or wild)
		poultry flesh of chickens or turkeys or ducks or geese raised for food
goose - a man who is a stupid incompetent fool
		fathead, goof, goofball, bozo, jackass, cuckoo, twat, zany
		muggins, saphead, tomfool, fool, sap a person who lacks good judgment
Verb gooses, goosing, goosed
goose - give a spurt of fuel to; "goose the car"
		pump question persistently; "She pumped the witnesses for information"
goose - prod into action
		egg on, incite, prod provoke or stir up; "incite a riot"; "set off great unrest among the people"
goose - pinch in the buttocks; "he goosed the unsuspecting girl"
		tweet, nip, twinge, pinch, twitch, squeeze make a weak, chirping sound; "the small bird was tweeting in the tree"

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Wiktionary

goose (Noun)
Any of various grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae, bigger than a duck.
goose (Noun)
The flesh of the goose used as food.
goose (Noun)
A stupid person.
goose (Noun)
A tailor's iron, heated in live coals or embers, used to press fabrics.
goose (Noun)
A young woman or girlfriend.
goose (Verb)
To sharply poke or pinch someone's buttocks. Derived from a goose's inclination to bite at a retreating intruder's hindquarters.
goose (Verb)
To stimulate, to spur.
goose (Verb)
To gently accelerate an automobile or machine, or give repeated small taps on the accelerator.
goose (Verb)
Of private-hire taxi drivers, to pick up a passenger who has not pre-booked a cab. This is unauthorised under UK licensing conditions.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

goose (n.)
Any large web-footen bird of the subfamily Anserinae, and belonging to Anser, Branta, Chen, and several allied genera. See Anseres.
goose (n.)
Any large bird of other related families, resembling the common goose.
goose (n.)
A tailor's smoothing iron, so called from its handle, which resembles the neck of a goose.
goose (n.)
A silly creature; a simpleton.
goose (n.)
A game played with counters on a board divided into compartments, in some of which a goose was depicted.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

goose
Waterfowl of the Anatidae family.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

goose
gōōs, n. (pl. Geese) a web-footed animal like a duck, but larger and stronger: a tailor's smoothing-iron, from the likeness of the handle to the neck of a goose: a stupid, silly person: a game of chance once common in England, in which the players moved counters forward from one compartment on a board to another, the right to a double move being secured when the card bearing the picture of a goose was reached.—v.t. (slang) to hiss off the stage.—ns. Goose′-cap, a silly person; Goose′-corn, a coarse rush; Goose′-egg, a zero, denoting a miss or failure to score at an athletic or other contest; Goose′-fish, a common name in America for the angler-fish (see Angler); Goose′-flesh, a puckered condition of the skin, like that of a plucked goose, through cold, fear, &c.; Goose′-foot, pigweed; Goose′-grass, a species of Bedstraw (q.v.), a common weed in hedges and bushy places in Britain, Europe, and America; Goose′-neck, an iron swivel forming the fastening between a boom and a mast: a bent pipe or tube with a swivel-joint; Goose′-quill, one of the quills or large wing-feathers of a goose, used as pens; Goos′ery, a place for keeping geese: stupidity; Goose′-skin, a kind of thin soft leather; Goose′-step (mil.), the marking of time by raising the feet alternately without making progress; Goose′-wing, one of the clews or lower corners of a ship's mainsail or foresail when the middle part is furled or tied up to the yard.—adj. Goose′-winged, having only one clew set: in fore-and-aft rigged vessels, having the mainsail on one side and the foresail on the other, so as to sail wing-and-wing.—n. Goos′ey, a goose: a blockhead. [A.S. gós; Ice. gás, Ger. gans, L. anser, Gr. chēn, Sans. hamsa.]

Vulgar Tongue DictionaryDictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 👅

goose
A taylor's goose; a smoothing iron used to press down the seams, for which purpose it must be heated: hence it is a jocular saying, that a taylor, be he ever so poor, is always sure to have a goose at his fire. He cannot say boh to a goose; a saying of a bashful or sheepish fellow.

Wikipedia

Goose (plural geese) is the general English name for a large number of birds, belonging to the family "Anatidae". This family also includes the swans, which are mostly larger than geese, and the ducks, which are smaller.

A male goose is called a "gander" and a baby goose is called a "gosling". A group of geese is called a "gaggle".