- a male goose (= a bird like a large duck)Topics Birdsc2Word OriginOld English gandra, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch gander, also to gannet.
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Idioms
See gander in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryhave/take a gander (at something)
- (informal) to look at something
what’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander
- (old-fashioned, saying) what one person is allowed to do, another person must be allowed to do in a similar situationTopics Permission and obligationc2
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