duck vs goose

Definitions

verb

1. to move (the head or body) quickly downwards or away
2. dip into a liquid
3. submerge or plunge suddenly
4. avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)

noun

1. small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs
2. (cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman
3. a heavy cotton fabric of plain weave; used for clothing and tents
4. flesh of a duck (domestic or wild)

Examples

It's penguins, albatrosses, caracaras, steamer ducks and a couple of endemic small jobs you've come for.

Trent ducked under another swing attack, swept with his feet in a scissors kick that tripped up his opponent and forced him to the ground.

The plan is a dead duck: there's no money.

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Definitions

verb

1. pinch in the buttocks
2. prod into action
3. give a spurt of fuel to

noun

1. web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic than ducks
2. a man who is a stupid incompetent fool
3. flesh of a goose (domestic or wild)

Examples

We would have make it earlier, but I procrastinated with completed and sealed ballots sitting on my desk for a couple of days -- no good excuse, but the reminders to spare the GOTC callers (and ourselves) reminder calls goosed me into action.

I had shown the old-fashioned deadeyes instead of rigging screws and had drawn the wrong kind of gooseneck attaching the boom to the mast.

Frankly, she held her nose and said it stank like the henhouse when a mongoose has spoiled the eggs.

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