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/ɡuːs/ · noun
Any of various grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae, which have feathers and webbed feet and are capable of flying, swimming, and walking on land, and which are generally bigger than ducks..
There is a flock of geese on the pond.
The goose, reputed to possess high generative power, was sacred to Priapus.
A group of geese is called a gaggle.
Ganders and geese are at their best for stock from two to ten years old. They live to a great age—it is stated to thirty or more years—but after ten years they cannot be reckoned upon as reliable assets on a farm. Two years old is the best age to mate them, making up pens of a gander and two or three geese at the New Year. It is difficult sometimes to distinguish ganders from geese. A practical man is, however, rarely mistaken.
Mrs. Cratchit made the gravy (ready beforehand in a little saucepan) hissing hot; Master Peter mashed the potatoes with incredible vigour; Miss Belinda sweetened up the apple-sauce; Martha dusted the hot plates; Bob took Tiny Tim beside him in a tiny corner at the table; the two young Cratchits set chairs for everybody, not forgetting themselves, and mounting guard upon their posts, crammed spoons into their mouths, lest they should shriek for goose before their turn came to be helped.
I'm sorry for you, but you're such a goose.
Have you stopped to think, you gooses, that Andy might not wish you to give it away?
You gooses. I didn’t accept his proposal. Mrs Plackett did. She did because she would. Don’t you see?
Use goose when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Goose means Any of various grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae, which have feathers and webbed feet and are capable of flying, swimming, and walking on land, and which are generally bigger than ducks..
Common synonyms include goose iron, zany, jackass, cuckoo.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
There is a flock of geese on the pond.
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