goose

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Any of various wild or domesticated waterbirds of the family Anatidae, and especially of the genera Anser, Branta, and Chen, characteristically having a shorter neck than that of a swan and a shorter, more pointed bill than that of a duck.
• noun The female of such a bird.
• noun The flesh of such a bird used as food.
• noun Informal A silly person.
• noun A tailor's pressing iron with a long curved handle.
• noun Slang A poke, prod, or pinch between or on the buttocks.
• transitive verb To poke, prod, or pinch (a person) between or on the buttocks.
• transitive verb To move to action; spur.
• transitive verb To give a spurt of fuel to (a car, for example); cause to accelerate quickly.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To hiss at; hiss down; condemn by hissing.
• noun In keno, the globe from which the numbered balls are withdrawn.
• noun Any bird of the family Anatidæ and subfamily Anserinæ, of which there are about 40 species of several genera, as well as different varieties of the domesticated bird. See phrases below.
• noun A silly, foolish person; a simpleton: in allusion to the supposed stupidity of the domestic goose, inferred from its somewhat clumsy appearance and motions.
• noun A tailors' smoothing-iron: so called from the resemblance of its handle to the neck of a goose.
• noun A game of chance formerly common in England.
• noun A piece used in the game of fox and geese.
• noun The European graylaggoose.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun Any large web-footen bird of the subfamily Anserinæ, and belonging to Anser, Branta, Chen, and several allied genera. See Anseres.
• noun Any large bird of other related families, resembling the common goose.
• noun A tailor's smoothing iron, so called from its handle, which resembles the neck of a goose.
• noun A silly creature; a simpleton.
• noun A game played with counters on a board divided into compartments, in some of which a goose was depicted.
• noun an attempt to accomplish something impossible or unlikely of attainment.
• noun See under Fen.
• noun (Zoöl.) any pedunculated barnacle of the genus Anatifa or Lepas; -- called also duck barnacle. See Barnacle, and Cirripedia.
• noun [Obs.] a silly person.
• noun (Bot.) a coarse kind of rush (Juncus squarrosus).
• noun [Colloq. Eng.] Michaelmas.
• noun (Bot.) The annual spear grass (Poa annua).
• noun anything, as a rod of iron or a pipe, curved like the neck of a goose; specially (Naut.), an iron hook connecting a spar with a mast.
• noun a large feather or quill of a goose; also, a pen made from it.
• noun See Goose flesh, above.
• noun (Bot.) a composite plant (Achillea ptarmica), growing wild in the British islands.
• noun (Zoöl.) See Phalarope.
• noun (Zoöl.) See Gannet.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

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

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

• verb pinch in the buttocks
• verb give a spurt of fuel to
• noun a man who is a stupid incompetent fool
• verb prod into action