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Definition of Gooselike
1. Adjective. Having or revealing stupidity. "Some fool idea about rewriting authors' books"
Language type: Colloquialism
Similar to: Stupid
Derivative terms: Dope, Dope, Foolishness, Goose, Goose, Jerk
Definition of Gooselike
1. Adjective. Resembling or characteristic of a goose. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gooselike
Literary usage of Gooselike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Comparative Physiognomy: Or, Resemblances Between Men and Animals by James W. Redfield (1866)
"The Russians are equally " up to snuff," and it was very gooselike to set Moscow
on fire to save it from the French — gooselike in two senses, ..."
2. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America: With Introductory Chapters on by Frank Michler Chapman (1912)
"... and they often fly in diagonal lines with a somewhat gooselike formation.
They secure their food of fish by pursuing it under water, swimming with feet ..."
3. The Metropolitan (1841)
"The timid and gooselike Bouvet, with his white gloves in his hand, and his whiter
complexion struggling with his extravagant rouge, creeps tremblingly ..."
4. Thirty Years in Tropical Australia by Gilbert White (1918)
"A solitary ' plain turkey' stalked about in the grass across the water, looking
at us with his long neck raised, and his foolish gooselike head, ..."
5. The Water-fowl Family by Leonard Cutler Sanford, Louis Bennett Bishop, Theodore Strong Van Dyke (1903)
"In many of its habits more like a goose than a duck, the ruddy sheldrake associates
with geese, and has a call note that is gooselike in quality. ..."
6. The World Book: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture edited by Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke (1918)
"Wedge-shaped, gooselike flocks of these birds migrating across Canada are a common
sight, and their long whistling note is a familiar sound. ..."
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