gander

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Noun

gander (plural ganders)

1. A male goose.
2. A fool, simpleton
3. (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

• Michigander
• what's good for the goose is good for the gander
• what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander

Translations

a male goose

• Belarusian: гусак (be) (husák) m 
• Bulgarian: гъсок (bg) (gǎsók) m 
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雄鵝 (cmn), 雄鹅 (cmn) (xióng'é)

• Czech: houser (cs) m
• Danish: gase (da) c
• Dutch: ganzerik (nl) m, gent (nl) m, gander (nl) m, mannetjesgans (nl) m
• Faroese: gásasteggi (fo) m
• Finnish: uroshanhi (fi)
• French: jars (fr) m
• German: Gänserich (de) m, (North German) Ganter (de) m, Ganterich (de) m, (Austrian, South German) Ganser (de) m, männliche Gans (de) f
• Greek: χήνος (el) (chínos) m , αρσενική χήνα (el) (arsenikí chína) f 
• Hungarian: gúnár (hu)
• Irish: gandal (ga) m
• Japanese: 雄ガチョウ (ja) (osu-gachō)

• Jèrriais: pithot m, gars m
• Low German: Ganter (nds) m, Ganner (nds) m
• Manx: kellagh guiy (gv) m
• Norwegian: gasse (no) m
• Polish: gąsior (pl) m
• Russian: гусь (ru) (gus’) m , гусак (ru) (gusák) m 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гусан (sh) m

  Roman: gusan (sh) m

• Slovak: houser (sk) m, gunár (sk) m
• Slovene: gosak (sl) m
• Spanish: ganso (es) m
• Swedish: gåskarl (sv) c
• Ukrainian: гусак (uk) (husák) m 
• Volapük: (♂♀) gan (vo), (♂) higan (vo)

a fool, simpleton

• Dutch: uil (nl) m, uilskuiken (nl) n
• Greek: βλάκας (el) (vlákas) m 

• Russian: глупец (ru) (glupetz) m , болван (ru) (bolvan) m , простак (ru) (prostack) m 

(slang) a look

• Dutch: blik (nl) m, kijkje (nl) n
• Finnish: vilkaisu (fi)

• German: Blick (de) m
• Russian: взгляд (ru) (vzglyad) m 

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• Lithuanian: žąsinas m
• Spanish: ganso

Verb

gander (third-person singular simple present ganders, present participle gandering, simple past and past participle gandered)

1. (dialect, intransitive) ramble, wander

Anagrams

• danger
• garden
• grande
• ranged

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Etymology

Most likely from English gander or Low German gander, ganner. Both are possibly formed from gans (“goose”) in an analogous way as kater (“male cat”) from kat (“(female) cat”) and doffer (“male dove”) from duif (“(female) dove”).

Noun

gander m (plural ganders, diminutive gandertje)

1. gander, male goose

Synonyms

• (male goose): ganzerik, gent, mannetjesgans

Anagrams

• dragen