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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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