as in fool
a person who lacks good sense or judgment
don't be such a silly goose—you're dressed just fine for the party
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Recent Examples of goose
The tournament will be able to sell tickets, satisfy its television partners, and goose interest as never before.
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Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2025
The recipes in these medicinal tomes are pretty complex—one calls for goose and hart brains mixed with silver, myrrh, ginger powder, honey, and several other precious ingredients on top of a base of wax and olive oil.
—Mark Hay, Popular Science, 13 Aug. 2025
This giant white goose plush is designed for comfort and fun.
—Nora Colomer
May Earn A Commission If You Buy Through Our Referral Links. This Content Was Created By A Team That Works Independently From The Fox Newsroom., FOXNews.com, 6 Aug. 2025
Scientists trace the heritage of the H5N1 virus that decimated Northern Gannets back to a goose in southern China in 1996.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 15 July 2025
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Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2025
The recipes in these medicinal tomes are pretty complex—one calls for goose and hart brains mixed with silver, myrrh, ginger powder, honey, and several other precious ingredients on top of a base of wax and olive oil.
—Mark Hay, Popular Science, 13 Aug. 2025
This giant white goose plush is designed for comfort and fun.
—Nora Colomer
May Earn A Commission If You Buy Through Our Referral Links. This Content Was Created By A Team That Works Independently From The Fox Newsroom., FOXNews.com, 6 Aug. 2025
Scientists trace the heritage of the H5N1 virus that decimated Northern Gannets back to a goose in southern China in 1996.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 15 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for goose
Noun
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Traditional software is often cheaper, faster and more reliable when a solution is rules-based and needs fool-proof outputs.—
Malana VanTyler,
USA Today,
9 Sep. 2025
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Here’s why the whole enterprise might be a fool’s errand.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
9 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Whether those people are sickened by grief and rage into a kind of temporary insanity, genuine lunatics, hustlers looking to milk a little more engagement or some combination of the three doesn’t really matter.—
Chris Stirewalt,
The Hill,
12 Sep. 2025
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Normies, apparently, refers to everyone who is not a bat-scat left-wing lunatic.—
Nolan Finley,
Twin Cities,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Eight years later and the newfound fame has found him and the family-run restaurant running out of turkey legs in recent days.—
Joseph Hernandez,
Kansas City Star,
12 Sep. 2025
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Enjoy over the next four to eight years; this is rich enough to stand up to roast turkey or a veal chop.—
Tom Hyland,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The Haunted Trail takes visitors outdoors through a path with dense fog and several haunting installations with zombies, a ghoul bus, a graveyard filled with ghosts, chainsaw maniacs and more.—
Carlos Rico,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 Sep. 2025
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Sure enough, the quiet is shattered when a new villain rolls into town in the form of Dante Reyes (Jason Momoa), a chaotic, fashion-forward maniac with a personal vendetta and a flair for over-the-top drama.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
24 Aug. 2025
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The World Health Organization recommends that acutely malnourished children be fed energy-dense foods, such as nut butters and sweet potatoes, and sometimes these can be found locally.—
Pablo Robles,
New York Times,
14 Sep. 2025
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Soluble fiber can be found in oat bran, barley, nuts, seeds, beans and some fruits and vegetables.—
Jacqueline Howard,
CNN Money,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Seth Rollins gassed Bron up by saying Jey Uso thinks his dad is a loser and his uncle is a moron.—
Alfred Konuwa,
Forbes.com,
18 Aug. 2025
Noun
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So at the end of the month, and this happens a lot at the end of the month, people start acting more 'cuckoo' because their medication isn't covered, or it's only covered for the first three or three and a half weeks of the month.—
Mandy Taheri,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Sep. 2025
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The ritual floats on, coming around each summer like the willow warbler or the common cuckoo.—
Jordan Michelman,
The Atlantic,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Goose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/goose. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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