gander

[gan-der]

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noun

the male of the goose.Compare goose(def 2).

Slang. a look: Take a gander at his new shoes.

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Origin of gander

before 1000; 1910–15 for def 2; Middle English; Old English gan(d)ra; cognate with Middle Low German ganre, Dutch gander; akin to goose, German Gans

Gander

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noun

a town in E Newfoundland, in Canada: airport on the great circle route between New York and northern Europe.

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Headwinds forced a landing at Gander, in Newfoundland, in the middle of a blizzard.
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Then you get a gander at the full monty, as it were, and he looks like someone inflated him from the sternum down.
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Under both the law and the ethics governing armed conflicts, sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
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What was sauce for the Michael Dukakis goose, is sauce for the Michael Huckabee gander.
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Just take a gander at trips planned for Richard Nixon by Henry Kissinger or for George H. W. Bush by James Baker.
Amateur Hour at the White House|Leslie H. Gelb|November 22, 2009|DAILY BEAST
"What's sauce fo' the goose ought to be sauce fo' the gander," argued the ex-moonshiner.
A Tar-Heel Baron|Mabell Shippie Clarke Pelton
What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander (Was also dem Einen recht ist, muss dem Andern billig sein).
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The gander waddled among the others, plucking at them with his pink beak, as if to stir them up.
A Busy Year at the Old Squire's|Charles Asbury Stephens
But the Gander was already waddling away and pretended not to hear him.
Among the Farmyard People|Clara Dillingham Pierson
In his Birds and Man he gives a delightful account of the home-coming of a flock of tame geese led by a gander.
Jungle Folk|Douglas Dewar

British Dictionary definitions for gander

gander

noun

a male goose

informal a quick look (esp in the phrase take (or have) a gander)

informal a simpleton

Word Origin for gander

Old English gandra, ganra; related to Low German and Dutch gander and to gannet

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Word Origin and History for gander

gander

Old English gandra "male goose," from Proto-Germanic *gan(d)ron- (cf. Dutch gander, Middle Low German ganre), from PIE *ghans- "goose" (see goose (n.)). OED suggests perhaps originally the name of some other water-bird and cites Lithuanian gandras "stork." Sometimes used 19c. like stag in reference to single men or male-only gatherings. Meaning "a long look" is 1912, from gander (v.).

gander

"take a long look," slang, 1886, from gander (n.) on the notion of craning one's neck like a goose; earlier it meant "to wander foolishly" (1680s). Related: Gandered; gandering.

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gander

see take a gander at.

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