Synonyms of the word goose


GOOSEBOZO - CUCKOO - FATHEAD - FOOL - GOOF - GOOFBALL - INCITE - JACKASS - MUGGINS - NIP - PINCH - POULTRY - PROD - PUMP - SAP - SAPHEAD - SQUEEZE - TOMFOOL - TWAT - TWEET - TWINGE - TWITCH - ZANY

goose

  • n. Any of various grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae, which have feathers and webbed feet and are capable…
  • n. The flesh of the goose used as food.
  • n. (slang) A silly person.
  • n. (archaic) A tailor's iron, heated in live coals or embers, used to press fabrics.
  • n. (South Africa, slang, dated) A young woman or girlfriend.
  • v. (slang) To sharply poke or pinch someone's buttocks. Derived from a goose's inclination to bite at a retreating…
  • v. To stimulate, to spur.
  • v. (slang) To gently accelerate an automobile or machine, or give repeated small taps on the accelerator.
  • v. (British slang) Of private-hire taxi drivers, to pick up a passenger who has not pre-booked a cab. This…

bozo

  • n. (slang) A stupid, foolish, or ridiculous person, especially a man.

cuckoo

  • adj. Crazy; not sane.
  • n. Any of various birds, of the family Cuculidae, famous for laying its eggs in the nests of other species;…
  • n. The sound of that particular bird.
  • n. The bird shaped figure found in Swiss/German clocks (cuckoo clocks) or the clock itself.
  • n. Someone found where they shouldn't be (used especially in the phrase a cuckoo in the nest).
  • n. Someone who is crazy.
  • v. To make the call of a cuckoo.
  • v. To repeat something incessantly.

fathead

  • n. (derogatory) An idiot; a fool.
  • n. (zoology) A cyprinoid fish of the Mississippi valley, Pimephales promelas, the black-headed minnow.
  • n. (zoology) A labroid food fish of California; the redfish.

fool

  • n. (pejorative) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
  • n. (historical) A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).
  • n. (informal) Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.
  • n. (slang) Buddy, dude, person.
  • n. (cooking) A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream.
  • n. (often capitalized, Fool) A particular card in a tarot deck.
  • v. To trick; to make a fool of someone.
  • v. To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth.

goof

  • n. (US) A mistake or error.
  • n. (US) A foolish and/or silly person; a goofball.
  • n. (Canada, prison slang) A child molester.
  • v. (US) To make a mistake.
  • v. (US) To engage in mischief.

goofball

  • n. (informal, often derogatory) A foolish or silly person.
  • n. (informal) A pill or tablet containing a pharmaceutical which has hypnotic or intoxicating effects, especially…
  • adj. Silly.

incite

  • v. To rouse, stir up or excite.

jackass

  • n. A male donkey.
  • n. A foolish or stupid person.
  • n. An inappropriately rude or obnoxious person.
  • p.n. (poker slang) A jack and an ace as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em due to phonetic similarity.
  • v. (rare) To behave very obnoxiously.

muggins

  • n. A fool or idiot (especially as an ironic way of referring to oneself).
  • n. (cribbage) The act of stealing another player's points because they either mis-pegged or counted up incorrectly.
  • n. A game of dominoes in which the object is to make the sum of the two ends of the line some multiple of…
  • n. A card game based on building in suits or matching exposed cards, the object being to get rid of one's…

nip

  • n. A small quantity of something edible or a potable liquor.
  • n. (vulgar) A nipple, usually of a woman.
  • v. To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or…
  • v. To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
  • v. To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
  • v. To annoy, as by nipping.
  • v. To taunt.
  • v. (Scotland, Northern England) To squeeze or pinch.
  • n. A playful bite.
  • n. A pinch with the nails or teeth.
  • n. Briskly cold weather.
  • n. A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching.
  • n. A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
  • n. A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
  • n. A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
  • n. (nautical) A short turn in a rope.
  • n. (papermaking) The place of intersection where one roll touches another.
  • n. (historical slang) A pickpocket.
  • v. To make a quick, short journey or errand, usually a round trip.

pinch

  • v. To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
  • v. To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
  • v. To squeeze between two objects.
  • v. To steal, usually of something almost trivial or inconsequential.
  • v. (slang) To arrest or capture.
  • v. (horticulture) To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
  • v. (nautical) To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
  • v. (hunting) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
  • v. (obsolete) To be niggardly or covetous.
  • v. To seize; to grip; to bite; said of animals.
  • v. (figuratively) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
  • v. To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
  • v. (obsolete) To complain or find fault.
  • n. The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
  • n. A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
  • n. An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
  • n. An organic herbal smoke additive.

poultry

  • n. domestic fowl (e.g. chickens, ducks, turkeys and geese) raised for food (either meat or eggs).
  • n. the meat from a domestic fowl.

prod

  • v. To poke, to push, to touch.
  • v. To encourage, to prompt.
  • n. A device (now often electrical) used to goad livestock into moving.
  • n. A prick or stab with such a pointed instrument.
  • n. A poke.
  • n. A light kind of crossbow; a prodd.
  • n. (computing, programming) production.

pump

  • n. A device for moving or compressing a liquid or gas.
  • n. An instance of the action of a pump; one stroke of a pump; any action similar to pumping.
  • n. A device for dispensing liquid or gas to be sold, particularly fuel.
  • n. (bodybuilding) A swelling of the muscles caused by increased blood flow following high intensity weightlifting.
  • n. (colloquial) A ride on a bicycle given to a passenger, usually on the handlebars or fender.
  • n. (US, obsolete, slang) The heart.
  • v. (transitive) To use a pump to move (liquid or gas).
  • v. (transitive, often followed by up) To fill with air.
  • v. (transitive) To move rhythmically, as the motion of a pump.
  • v. (transitive) To shake (a person's hand) vigorously.
  • v. (transitive) To gain information from (a person) by persistent questioning.
  • v. (intransitive) To use a pump to move liquid or gas.
  • v. (intransitive, slang) To be going very well.
  • v. (sports) To kick, throw or hit the ball far and high.
  • v. (Scotland, slang) To pass gas; to fart.
  • v. (computing) To pass (messages) into a program so that it can obey them.
  • n. (Britain) A type of shoe, a trainer or sneaker.
  • n. (chiefly Canada, US) A type of women's shoe which leaves the instep uncovered and has a relatively high…
  • n. A dancing shoe.
  • n. A type of shoe without a heel.

sap

  • n. (uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating…
  • n. (uncountable) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
  • n. (slang, countable) A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop; a naive person.
  • n. (countable, US, slang) A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
  • n. (military) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of…
  • v. (transitive) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
  • v. (transitive, military) To pierce with saps.
  • v. (transitive) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
  • v. (transitive) To gradually weaken.
  • v. (intransitive) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.

saphead

  • n. A simpleton, a stupid person.

squeeze

  • v. (transitive) To apply pressure to from two or more sides at once.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To fit into a tight place.
  • v. (transitive) To remove something with difficulty, or apparent difficulty.
  • v. (transitive) To put in a difficult position by presenting two or more choices.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To oppress with hardships, burdens, or taxes; to harass.
  • v. (transitive, baseball) To attempt to score a runner from third by bunting.
  • n. A close or tight fit.
  • n. (figuratively) A difficult position.
  • n. A hug or other affectionate grasp.
  • n. (slang) A romantic partner.
  • n. (slang) An illicit alcoholic drink made by squeezing Sterno through cheesecloth, etc., and mixing the…
  • n. (baseball) The act of bunting in an attempt to score a runner from third.
  • n. (card games) A play that forces an opponent to discard a card that gives up one or more tricks.
  • n. (caving) A traversal of a narrow passage.
  • n. (epigraphy) An impression of an inscription formed by pressing wet paper onto the surface and peeling…
  • n. (mining) The gradual closing of workings by the weight of the overlying strata.
  • n. (dated) A bribe or fee paid to a middleman, especially in China; the practice of requiring such a bribe…

tomfool

  • adj. silly or stupid.
  • n. a silly or stupid person.

twat

  • n. (vulgar, slang) The vagina or vulva.
  • n. (Britain, New Zealand, sometimes US, offensive, vulgar, slang) A contemptible and stupid person, idiot.
  • v. (transitive, Britain, slang) To hit, slap.

tweet

  • n. The sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle.
  • n. (Internet) An entry posted on the microblogging service Twitter.
  • v. (intransitive) To make a short high-pitched sound, like that of certain birds.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, Internet) To post an update to Twitter.
  • interj. An onomatopoeic of bird singing.

twinge

  • n. A pinch; a tweak; a twitch.
  • n. A sudden sharp pain.
  • v. (transitive) To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.
  • v. (transitive) To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains.
  • v. (intransitive) To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting…

twitch

  • n. A brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again; a spasm.
  • n. (informal) Action of spotting or seeking out a bird, especially a rare one.
  • n. (farriery) A stick with a hole in one end through which passes a loop, which can be drawn tightly over…
  • n. (physiology, countable) A brief, contractile response of a skeletal muscle elicited by a single maximal…
  • v. (intransitive) To perform a twitch; spasm.
  • v. (transitive) To jerk sharply and briefly.
  • v. (transitive) To spot or seek out a bird, especially a rare one.
  • n. couch grass (Elymus repens; a species of grass, often considered as a weed).

zany

  • adj. Unusual and bizarre in a funny, comical way; outlandish; clownish.
  • adj. Ludicrously or incongruously comical.
  • n. (obsolete) A fool or clown, especially one whose business on the stage is to imitate foolishly the actions…
  • v. (obsolete) To mimic foolishly.

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