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Goosey   /gˈusi/   Listen
Goosey

adjective
1.
Having or revealing stupidity.  Synonyms: anserine, dopey, dopy, foolish, gooselike, goosy, jerky.  "A dopey answer" , "A dopey kid" , "Some fool idea about rewriting authors' books"






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"Goosey" Quotes from Famous Books



... the world brings you out this way at breakfast time, and where are you going?—Oh! goosey, goosey gander, where ...
— The House by the Church-Yard • J. Sheridan Le Fanu

... be some other influence at work for this perverseness to keep on so long. Tell me, did she take up with that very goosey ...
— The Two Sides of the Shield • Charlotte M. Yonge

... "Goosey! It's Walter Evesham's man. He came for mother and all of us, and he's taken old John and the cows to save us ...
— Stories by American Authors (Volume 4) • Constance Fenimore Woolson

... "Why—you old goosey—I was only speaking in a general sense, of course! You are always so literal. Now when we have finished tea, sing me that funny song about high-heeled shoon and siller ...
— The Mayor of Casterbridge • Thomas Hardy

... Goosey, goosey, gander, where dost thou wander? Upstairs and downstairs and in my lady's chamber; There I met an old man that wouldn't say his prayers, I took him by his hind legs ...
— Mother Goose - The Original Volland Edition • Anonymous

... unpublished folk-lore and legends of the different provinces. The result, of which we have as yet only the first volume, is this remarkable book. Bad cruel Nils is transformed into an elf, and on the back of a goosey-gander, Thumbietot, as he is now called, visits distant regions, and learns kindness ...
— A Mother's List of Books for Children • Gertrude Weld Arnold



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