gander

Meanings

Noun

• A male goose.
• A fool, simpleton.
• A glance, look.
• A man living apart from his wife.

Verb

• ramble, wander

Related

Similar words

• butcher's, butcher's hook (Cockney rhyming slang for "look")

Origin

• From Middle English gandre, from Old English gandra, ganra, from Proto-West Germanic *ganʀō, from Proto-Germanic *ganzô ("gander"), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns ("goose").
• Cognate with Dutch gander ("gander"), Low German Gander, Ganner, dialectal German Gandert ("gander"), German Ganter ("gander"), Norwegian gasse ("gander"), Icelandic gassi ("gander"). Related to goose, gannet.