gosling

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  1. noun A young goose.
  2. noun A naive or inexperienced young person.

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  • I had often watched him loping down the hall, awkward as a gosling, and had filled unexpectedly with the hope that he'd find his way back into the real world. —  Secret Ceremonies
  • One would have said that her body, too rounded everywhere, was still not fully developed, and with her complexion, too fresh for Paris, she reminded one of a gosling which has not yet lost its down. —  Maigret's Revolver - Georges Simenon - 68
  • The gosling, well pleased, thanked the man and went into the house and remained there Now let us go to the wolf The wolf looked everywhere for these goslings, but could not find them. —  Italian Popular Tales
  • Then he went away and came at last to the house of the second gosling, and everything happened as to the first, the wolf blew down the house and ate the gosling. —  Italian Popular Tales
  • Then he came down from the roof and said to the gosling: "Listen, gosling. —  Italian Popular Tales
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  1. Middle English, variant (influenced by gos, goose) of gesling, from Old Norse gæslingr, diminutive of gās, goose; see ghans- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also rarely in fuller form gooseling; from Middle English goslyng, also geslyng, guslyng (= Danish gæsling = Swedish gäsling; cf. Middle Low German gosselen, Low German gossel, gössel, German gänslein), from gos, goose, + diminutive -ling.
 

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