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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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Etymology of 'Anserine'

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"Anserine" Quotes from Famous Books

... strength she held him firm in her grip and threatened to throw him into a pond if he persisted in his attempted chastisement. Since then he had respected her person, but to the day of his death he had cursed her for anserine stupidity. An unlovely, loveless and unloved old man. Why should Blanquette have wept over him? She had not the Parisian's highly strung temperament and capacity for facile emotion. She was peasant to the core, slow to rejoice, and slow to grieve, and she had the peasant's remorseless logic ...

— The Beloved Vagabond • William J. Locke

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