| 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 |
| 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 |
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 |
solan
solan goose
solant goose
Sula bassana | very large white gannet with black wing tips |
flight
flight of stairs
flight of steps | a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next |
sea ladder
sea steps | (nautical) ladder to be lowered over a ship's side for coming aboard |
stairs
steps | a flight of stairs or a flight of steps |
| goose | flesh of a goose (domestic or wild) |
| goose liver | liver of a goose used as meat |
| steps | the course along which a person has walked or is walking in, I followed in his steps, he retraced his steps, his steps turned toward home |
| 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 |