goose step | a manner of marching with legs straight and swinging high |
wild-goose chase | the fruitless pursuit of something unattainable |
pilomotor reflex gooseflesh goose bump goosebump goose pimple goose skin horripilation | reflex erection of hairs of the skin in response to cold or emotional stress or skin irritation |
yellow-breasted bunting Emberiza aureola | common in Russia and Siberia |
yellow-breasted chat Icteria virens | American warbler noted for imitating songs of other birds |
red-breasted nuthatch Sitta canadensis | bluish-grey nuthatch with reddish breast, of northern coniferous forests |
white-breasted nuthatch Sitta carolinensis | bluish-grey nuthatch with black head and white breast, of eastern North America |
red-breasted sapsucker Sphyrapicus varius ruber | western North American sapsucker |
red-breasted merganser Mergus serrator | widely distributed merganser of America and Europe |
goose | web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic than ducks |
Chinese goose Anser cygnoides | very large wild goose of northeast Asia, interbreeds freely with the greylag |
greylag graylag greylag goose graylag goose Anser anser | common grey wild goose of Europe, ancestor of many domestic breeds |
blue goose Chen caerulescens | North American wild goose having dark plumage in summer but white in winter |
snow goose | blue goose in the white color phase |
Branta genus Branta | wild geese |
brant brant goose brent brent goose | small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate southward |
common brant goose Branta bernicla | the best known variety of brant goose |
honker Canada goose Canadian goose Branta canadensis | common greyish-brown wild goose of North America with a loud, trumpeting call |
barnacle goose barnacle Branta leucopsis | European goose smaller than the brant, breeds in the far north |
goose down | down of the goose |
goose barnacle gooseneck barnacle Lepas fascicularis | stalked barnacle that attaches to ship bottoms or floating timbers |
red-breasted snipe Limnodromus scolopaceus | a dowitcher with a red breast |
dabchick little grebe Podiceps ruficollis | small European grebe |
solan solan goose solant goose Sula bassana | very large white gannet with black wing tips |
double-breasted jacket | a jacket having fronts that overlap enough for two separate rows of buttons |
double-breasted suit | a suit with a double-breasted jacket |
single-breasted jacket | a jacket having fronts that overlap only enough for a single row of buttons |
single-breasted suit | a suit having a single-breasted jacket |
goose | flesh of a goose (domestic or wild) |
goose liver | liver of a goose used as meat |
Mother Goose | the imaginary author of a collection of nursery rhymes |
fathead goof goofball bozo jackass goose cuckoo twat zany | a man who is a stupid incompetent fool |
yardgrass yard grass wire grass goose grass Eleusine indica | coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers, native to Old World tropics, a naturalized weed elsewhere |
goose grass Texas millet Panicum Texanum | annual weedy grass used for hay |
silverweed goose-tansy goose grass Potentilla anserina | low-growing perennial having leaves silvery beneath, northern United States, Europe, Asia |
American red plum August plum goose plum Prunus americana | wild plum trees of eastern and central North America having red-orange fruit with yellow flesh |
cleavers clivers goose grass catchweed spring cleavers Galium aparine | annual having the stem beset with curved prickles, North America and Europe and Asia |
e nothing nil nix nada null aught cipher cypher goose egg naught zero zilch zip zippob | a quantity of no importance, it looked like nothing I had ever seen before, reduced to nil all the work we had done, we racked up a pathetic goose egg, it was all for naught, I didn't hear zilch about it |
goose grease | grease derived from geese |
goose | give a spurt of fuel to, goose the car |
goose | prod into action |
goose | pinch in the buttocks, he goosed the unsuspecting girl |
goose step | march in a military fashion |
bare-breasted braless toples | having the breasts uncovered or featuring such nudity, topless waitresses, a topless cabaret |
double-breasted | (of clothing) fastened by lapping one edge of the front well over the other usually with a double row of buttons, double-breasted jacket, double-breasted suit |
single-breasted | (of clothing) closing with a narrow overlap and fastened with a single row of buttons, a single-breasted jacket |
pigeon-breasted chicken-breasted | having a chest deformity marked by a projecting breastbone caused by infantile rickets |
breasted | having a breast or breasts, or breasts as specified, used chiefly in compounds, small-breasted, red-breasted sandpiper |