gander

See also: Gander

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)/
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Rhymes: -ændə(ɹ)

NounEdit

gander (plural ganders)

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.
A fool, simpleton.
(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.
(US) A man living apart from his wife.

SynonymsEdit

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

Derived termsEdit

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 (nl) m, gent (nl) m, gander m, mannetjesgans m
Esperanto: ansero
Faroese: gásasteggi m
Finnish: uroshanhi
French: jars (fr) m
Galician: ganso m
German: Gänserich (de) m, Ganter (de) m, Ganterich m (North German), Ganser (de) m (Austrian, South German), Ganauser (de) m (Austrian)
Greek: χήνος (el) 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
Old English: ganra 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 (pt) 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 (lt) m

Spanish: ^{(please verify)} ganso (es)

VerbEdit

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

(dialect, intransitive) ramble, wander

AnagramsEdit

Garden, danger, garden, grande, graned, nadger, ranged

DutchEdit

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”).