Fowl vs Goose - What's the difference?
fowl | goose |
(archaic) A bird.
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A bird of the order Galliformes, including chickens, turkeys, pheasant, partridges and quail.
Birds which are hunted or kept for food, including Galliformes and also waterfowl of the order Anseriformes such as ducks, geese and swans.
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Any of various grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae, bigger than a duck
The flesh of the goose used as food.
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(slang) A silly person
* {{quote-book, 1906, Langdon Mitchell, chapter=The New York Idea, Best Plays of the Early American Theatre, 1787-1911, page=430
, passage=I'm sorry for you, but you're such a goose .}}
(archaic) A tailor's iron, heated in live coals or embers, used to press fabrics.
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(South Africa, slang, dated) A young woman or girlfriend.
(slang) To sharply poke or pinch someone's buttocks. Derived from a goose's inclination to bite at a retreating intruder's hindquarters.
To stimulate, to spur.
(slang) To gently accelerate an automobile or machine, or give repeated small taps on the accelerator.
(UK slang) Of private-hire taxi drivers, to pick up a passenger who has not pre-booked a cab. This is unauthorised under UK licensing conditions.
English nouns with irregular plurals
In archaic|lang=en terms the difference between fowl and goose
is that fowl is (archaic) a bird while goose is (archaic) a tailor's iron, heated in live coals or embers, used to press fabrics.As nouns the difference between fowl and goose
is that fowl is (archaic) a bird while goose is any of various grazing waterfowl of the family anatidae, bigger than a duck.As verbs the difference between fowl and goose
is that fowl is to hunt fowl while goose is (slang) to sharply poke or pinch someone's buttocks derived from a goose's inclination to bite at a retreating intruder's hindquarters.fowl
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Noun
(wikipedia fowl) (en-noun)- And now I take vpon me the aduentures of holy thynges / & now I see and vnderstande that myn old synne hyndereth me and shameth me / so that I had no power to stere nor speke whan the holy blood appiered afore me / So thus he sorowed til hit was day / & herd the fowles synge / thenne somwhat he was comforted
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goose
English
Noun
(geese)- There is a flock of geese on the pond.
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- Come in, tailor. Here you may roast your goose .