gander

See also: Gander

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English gandre, from Old English gandra, ganra (“gander”), from Proto-Germanic *ganzô (“gander”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns- (“goose”). Cognate with Dutch gander (“gander”), Low German Gander, Ganner (“gander”), dialectal German Gandert (“gander”), German Ganter (“gander”), Norwegian gasse (“gander”), Icelandic gassi (“gander”). Related to goose, gannet.

PronunciationEdit

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɡæn.də(ɹ)/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ændə(ɹ)

NounEdit

gander (plural ganders)

1. A male goose.
   • 1916, Blanche Fisher Wright, The Original Mother Goose

     Old Mother Goose / When she wanted to wander / Would ride through the air / On a very fine gander.

2. A fool, simpleton
3. (slang, used only with “have”, “get” and “take”) A glance, look.

   Have a gander at what he’s written.

   I took a gander and she seemed so familiar.

SynonymsEdit

• (slang, look): butcher's, butcher's hook (Cockney rhyming slang for "look")

Derived termsEdit

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

TranslationsEdit

a male goose

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

  Mandarin: 雄鵝, 雄鹅 (xióng'é)

• Czech: houser (cs) m, husák (cs) m
• Danish: gase (da) c, hangås c
• Dutch: ganzerik m, gent (nl) m, gander m, mannetjesgans m
• Esperanto: ansero
• Faroese: gásasteggi m
• Finnish: uroshanhi (fi)
• French: jars (fr) m
• German: Gänserich (de) m, Ganter (de) m, Ganterich m (North German), Ganser (de) m (Austrian, South German), Ganauser (de) m (Austrian)
• Greek: χήνος m (chínos), αρσενική χήνα f (arsenikí chína)
• Hungarian: gúnár (hu)
• Ido: gansulo
• Irish: gandal (ga) m
• Japanese: 雄ガチョウ (osu-gachō)
• Low German: Ganter (nds) m, Ganner (nds) m

• Manx: kellagh guiy m
• Norman: pithot m, gars m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gasse m, hanngås m, f, gåsestegg m

  Nynorsk: gasse m, hanngås f, gåsestegg m

• Polish: gąsior (pl) m
• Portuguese: ganso (pt) m
• Romanian: gâscan (ro) m, gânsac (ro) m
• Russian: гусь (ru) m (gusʹ), гуса́к (ru) m (gusák)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гусан m

  Roman: gusan (sh) m

• Slovak: houser m, gunár m
• Slovene: gosak m anim
• Spanish: ganso (es) m
• Swedish: gåskarl (sv) c, hangås c
• Ukrainian: гусак m (husák)

a fool, simpleton

• Bulgarian: глупак (bg) m (glupak)
• Dutch: uil (nl) m, uilskuiken (nl) n
• Greek: βλάκας (el) m (vlákas)

• Portuguese: paspalhão (pt) m
• Russian: глупе́ц (ru) m (glupéc), болва́н (ru) m (bolván), проста́к (ru) m (prosták)

(slang) a look

• Dutch: blik (nl) m, kijkje (nl) n
• Finnish: vilkaisu
• German: Blick (de) m
• Portuguese: olhada f

• Romanian: ocheadă (ro) f, privire (ro) f, ochire (ro) f
• Russian: взгляд (ru) m (vzgljad)
• Spanish: vistazo (es) m

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} žąsinas m

• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} ganso

VerbEdit

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

1. (dialect, intransitive) ramble, wander

AnagramsEdit

• danger, garden, grande, graned, nadger, ranged

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PronunciationEdit

• Audio

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EtymologyEdit

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”).

NounEdit

gander m (plural ganders, diminutive gandertje n)

1. gander, male goose

SynonymsEdit

• (male goose): ganzerik, gent, mannetjesgans

AnagramsEdit

• dragen