gander

See also: Gander

Contents

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old English gandra.

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
• 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
• 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)
• Norman: pithot m, gars m

• Low German: Ganter (nds) m, Ganner (nds) m
• Manx: kellagh guiy 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)
• Volapük: higan (vo)

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

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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
• ranged

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PronunciationEdit

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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