GANDER

gander

(noun) mature male goose

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Proper noun

Gander

A surname.

A town in Newfoundland and Labrador

Anagrams

• Garden, danger, garden, grande, graned, nadger, ranged

Etymology

Noun

gander (plural ganders)

A male goose.

A fool, simpleton.

(slang, used only with “have”, “get” and “take”) A glance, look.

(US) A man living apart from his wife.

Synonyms

• (slang, look): butcher's, butcher's hook (Cockney rhyming slang for "look")

Verb

gander (third-person singular simple present ganders, present participle gandering, simple past and past participle gandered)

(dialect, intransitive) ramble, wander

Anagrams

• Garden, danger, garden, grande, graned, nadger, ranged

Source: Wiktionary


Gan"der, n. Etym: [AS. gandra, ganra, akin to Prov. G. gander, ganter, and E. goose, gannet. See Goose.]

Definition: The male of any species of goose.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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