Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A young goose.
- noun A naive or inexperienced young person.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The American pasque-flower, Pulsatilla hirsutissima: so called from its dense, soft hairs.
- noun A young goose; a goose before it has attained its full plumage.
- noun The catkin of the willow: so called from its yellow color and fluffy texture.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A young or unfledged goose.
- noun A catkin on nut trees and pines.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A young
goose . - noun A
callow (immature, inexperienced) /foolish , naive, young person. - noun dated A
catkin on nut trees andpines .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun young goose
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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- i always thought james marsden could be hal, but gosling is a great choice.
Casting Rumor: Ryan Gosling as The Green Lantern? | /Film 2008
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- gosling is perfect for this, the same way RDJ, bale & norton are for their films.
Casting Rumor: Ryan Gosling as The Green Lantern? | /Film 2008
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After a gosling is a month or six weeks old you may put it up to feed for a green goose, & it will be perfectly fed in another month following; and to feed them, there is no better meat then skeg oats boil'd, and given plenty thereof thrice a day, morning, noon, and night, with good store of milk, or milk and water mixt together to drink.
The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May
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A related word is "gosling" for a baby goose, and the German word for goose is "gans".
Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #156 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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"gosling" right at harvest time, when hands were so scarce that farmers wrangled and fought, day in and day out, to get one single man to go into the field.
The Moccasin Maker E. Pauline Johnson 1887
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N.B. the following is a gosling of my fathers own hatching
Letter 331 2009
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[1] I cannot send you the tune unless I could pack up myself in this paper — but here is another gosling, just hatchd —
Letter 331 2009
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Sheen resembles a startled gosling that's just crawled out of Charles Bukowski's left nostril or a haunted scarecrow from a Stephen King story.
Idolising bad boys makes Charlies of us all | Barbara Ellen 2011
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Six chickens, two ducks, a cow, and a fuzzy grey gosling named Molly also came with the house.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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Six chickens, two ducks, a cow, and a fuzzy grey gosling named Molly also came with the house.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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