Meaning

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

noun a man who is a stupid incompetent fool

noun flesh of a goose (domestic or wild)

originPIE word *ǵʰh₂éns From Middle English goos, gos, from Old English gōs, from Proto-West Germanic *gans, from Proto-Germanic *gans, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns. Cognates Compare West Frisian goes, North Frisian göis (also Fering-Öömrang dialect North Frisian gus; Sölring dialect North Frisian Guus; Heligoland dialect North Frisian gus), Low German Goos, Gans, Dutch gans, German Gans, Danish,…

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