gosling
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A young goose that is not yet fully grown
- noun
- /ˈɡɑzlɪŋ/
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gansito
- Every spring, the farm welcomes new goslings that play in the grassy fields.
Examples
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The air is crisp and the goslings are waiting.
Fiction book (1996) -
Aspens, alders, and birches budding, geese with their tiny yellow goslings.
Fiction book (1994) -
And what this little gosling needed - was a mother.
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Yeah, so, uh, how did you get a gosling anyway?
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Why did you steal my gosling?
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How do goslings normally do this?
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Do not pick up the goslings unless you want to deal with an angry Mother Goose.
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Fly, little gosling, fly!
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On the river, a pair of Canada geese paddle upstream, six goslings drafting in their wake.
Fiction book (2000) -
The gosling wobbled after its mother as they walked by the pond.
How Young
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word gosling is made of goose and the ending -ling, which means 'young' or 'small'. So a gosling is a young goose.