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  • English Word Goodman Definition A familiar appellation of civility, equivalent to "My friend", "Good sir", "Mister;" -- sometimes used ironically.
  • English Word Goodman Definition A husband; the master of a house or family; -- often used in speaking familiarly.
  • English Word Goodness Definition The quality of being good in any of its various senses; excellence; virtue; kindness; benevolence; as, the goodness of timber, of a soil, of food; goodness of character, of disposition, of conduct, etc.
  • English Word Goods Definition See Good, n., 3.
  • English Word Goodship Definition Favor; grace.
  • English Word Goodwife Definition The mistress of a house.
  • English Word Goody Definition A bonbon, cake, or the like; -- usually in the pl.
  • English Word Goody Definition An American fish; the lafayette or spot.
  • English Word Goody Definition Goodwife; -- a low term of civility or sport.
  • English Word Goody-goody Definition Mawkishly or weakly good; exhibiting goodness with silliness.
  • English Word Goodyship Definition The state or quality of a goody or goodwife
  • English Word Goolde Definition An old English name of some yellow flower, -- the marigold (Calendula), according to Dr. Prior, but in Chaucer perhaps the turnsole.
  • English Word Gooroo Definition Alt. of Guru
  • English Word Goosander Definition A species of merganser (M. merganser) of Northern Europe and America; -- called also merganser, dundiver, sawbill, sawneb, shelduck, and sheldrake. See Merganser.
  • English Word Goose Definition Any large web-footen bird of the subfamily Anserinae, and belonging to Anser, Branta, Chen, and several allied genera. See Anseres.
  • English Word Goose Definition Any large bird of other related families, resembling the common goose.
  • English Word Goose Definition A tailor's smoothing iron, so called from its handle, which resembles the neck of a goose.
  • English Word Goose Definition A silly creature; a simpleton.
  • English Word Goose Definition A game played with counters on a board divided into compartments, in some of which a goose was depicted.
  • English Word Gooseberries Definition of Gooseberry
  • English Word Gooseberry Definition Any thorny shrub of the genus Ribes; also, the edible berries of such shrub. There are several species, of which Ribes Grossularia is the one commonly cultivated.
  • English Word Gooseberry Definition A silly person; a goose cap.
  • English Word Goosefish Definition See Angler.
  • English Word Goosefoot Definition A genus of herbs (Chenopodium) mostly annual weeds; pigweed.
  • English Word Gooseries Definition of Goosery
  • English Word Goosery Definition A place for keeping geese.
  • English Word Goosery Definition The characteristics or actions of a goose; silliness.
  • English Word Goosewing Definition One of the clews or lower corners of a course or a topsail when the middle part or the rest of the sail is furled.
  • English Word Goosewinged Definition Having a "goosewing."
  • English Word Goosewinged Definition Said of a fore-and-aft rigged vessel with foresail set on one side and mainsail on the other; wing and wing.