Resembling a goose in appearance, behavior, or character.
Compound of 'goose' and 'like' (from Old English 'gelīce'), a productive English pattern for creating adjectives that mean 'resembling or having qualities of' the noun.
The suffix '-like' is one of English's most flexible word-building tools—it appears in thousands of words (childlike, lifelike, dreamlike) and lets us describe things by comparison in just one word!
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