Goose

[guːs] or [ɡus]

解釋/意思:

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

(noun.) flesh of a goose (domestic or wild).

(verb.) give a spurt of fuel to; 'goose the car'.

(verb.) prod into action.

(verb.) pinch in the buttocks; 'he goosed the unsuspecting girl'.

校對:迈克尔--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) Any large web-footen bird of the subfamily Anserinae, and belonging to Anser, Branta, Chen, and several allied genera. See Anseres.

(n.) Any large bird of other related families, resembling the common goose.

(n.) A tailor's smoothing iron, so called from its handle, which resembles the neck of a goose.

(n.) A silly creature; a simpleton.

(n.) A game played with counters on a board divided into compartments, in some of which a goose was depicted.

亨廷顿編輯

同義詞及近義詞：

n. [1]. Tailor's smoothing iron.[2]. Simpleton, fool, DUNCE.

艾布拉姆編輯

解釋/意思:

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.

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