gooselike

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Adj.

gooselike - having or revealing stupidity; "ridiculous anserine behavior"; "a dopey answer"; "a dopey kid"; "some fool idea about rewriting authors' books"

dopey, dopy, goosey, goosy, foolish, anserine, jerky

colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech

stupid - lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity

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Voice: a hoarse, gooselike gaggle, emitted especially early in the morning.

Observando aves en el Peru: 1963-2006

To date, scientists have uncovered fossilized bones of an extinct hawk (first time reported as a fossil on O'ahu), a long-legged owl, Hawaiian sea eagle, petrel, two species of crow, Hawaiian finches, Hawaiian honeyeaters, and the moa nalo (a turkey-sized, flightless gooselike duck- the largest native Hawaiian bird).