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Anserine

adjective

Of or resembling a goose.

Having or revealing stupidity. Synonyms: dopey, dopy, foolish, gooselike, goosey, goosy, jerky. "A dopey answer" , "A dopey kid" , "Some fool idea about rewriting authors' books"

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"Anserine" Quotes from Famous Books

... trees in general, and have had several romantic attachments to certain trees in particular. Now, if you expect me to hold forth in a "scientific" way about my tree-loves,—to talk, for instance, of the Ulmus Americana, and describe the ciliated edges of its samara, and all that,—you are an anserine individual, and I must refer you to a dull friend who will discourse to you of such matters. What should you think of a lover who should describe the idol of his heart in the language of science, thus: Class, Mammalia; Order, Primates; ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 10, August, 1858 • Various

Words linked to "Anserine" : colloquialism, stupid, zoological science, gooselike, zoology, subfamily Anserinae