as in lunatics
a person who lacks good sense or judgment
don't be such a silly goose—you're dressed just fine for the party
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Recent Examples of geese
In Chicago, the large lakeshore population of Canadian geese has become a major food source for Cook County coyotes, not so much the adult geese themselves as the contents of their nests, nearly half of which get raided in most years.
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Literary Hub, 8 Jan. 2026
And Canada geese, which can be found in Kansas City year-round, are also getting sick.
—Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 17 Dec. 2025
Hundreds of dead snow geese found in Pennsylvania are believed to have had avian flu, the Game Commission says.
—Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2025
There were 5 million geese around Hudson Bay in the 1980s, 10 million in the late 1990s and 21 million by 2014.
—Quanta Magazine, 15 Dec. 2025
The agency is concerned that some wild birds, geese, backyard domestic fowl and commercial poultry flocks may have contracted Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, which is contagious among bird populations.
—Beth Warren, Nashville Tennessean, 12 Dec. 2025
This is clearly not a hunting scene—though the Natufians did consume geese—but suggests a sentimental or deeply meaningful relationship between the bird and the person.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 22 Nov. 2025
The farm is home to goats, Holstein cows, potbellied and kune kune pigs, donkeys, sheep, rabbits, llamas, alpacas, guinea fowl, guinea pigs, geese, chickens, a Shetland pony, and a Shire horse.
—Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
Dozens of unable-to-fly wild ducks and geese at a sanctuary in Washtenaw County's Salem Township, earlier ordered killed by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, have received a reprieve.
—Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 22 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for geese
Noun
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The lunatics who attacked the seat of government to try to change the outcome of a free and fair election are not patriots.—
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Parents know these woke lunatics are bullies.—
Noun
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The fools of twenty-first-century Western imperialism possessed little of the historical literacy, let alone the moral sophistication, of Arendt, Weil, and Camus.—
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The mind wants desperately to connect with a person—and fools itself into seeing one in a machine.—
Noun
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The next slide showed a mouthwatering array of meats, cheeses, crudite and nuts set for snacking on, along with bottles of Haack's champagne line, Clé Cachée, chilling behind an array of glasses.—
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For instance, nuts, seeds, nut butters, and chocolate are more prone to oxidation, which can lead to rancid flavors or a gritty texture.—
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Bird flu, a highly contagious airborne respiratory virus, affects poultry — including chickens, ducks and turkeys — and some wild bird species, including geese and shorebirds, the department said.—
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More than 400 families with critically ill children were provided fresh produce, dry goods, turkeys and home essentials.—
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“Geese.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/geese. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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