Gander
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English
Noun
Gander (plural Ganders)- A male goose.
- A fool, simpleton
- (slang, used only with “have” and “take”) A glance, look.
- Have a gander at what he’s written.
Synonyms
- (slang, look): butcher's, butcher's hook (Cockney rhyming slang for "look")
Derived terms
- What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
- What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
Verb
Gander (third-person singular simple present Ganders, present participle Gandering, simple past and past participle Gandered)
- (dialect) (intransitive) ramble, wander
Thesaurus
Bantam, banty, barn-door fowl, barnyard fowl, biddy, billy, billy goat, boar, broiler, brooder, broody hen, bubbly-jock, buck, bull, bullock, capon, chanticleer, chick, chickabiddy, chicken, chicky, cock, cockerel, dog, domestic fowl, drake, duck, duckling, dunghill fowl, entire, entire horse, fowl, fryer, game fowl, glance, glimpse, gobbler, goose, gosling, guinea cock, guinea fowl, guinea hen, hart, he-goat, hen, hen turkey, partlet, peacock, peek, peep, poulard, poult, poultry, pullet, ram, roaster, rooster, setting hen, spring chicken, stag, stallion, steer, stewing chicken, stot, stud, studhorse, tom, tom turkey, tomcat, top cow, top horse, tup, turkey, turkey gobbler, turkey-cock, wether
