English

Proper noun

Gander

1. A surname​.
2. A town in Newfoundland and Labrador

English

Noun

gander ‎(plural ganders)

1. A male goose.
   • 1916, Blanche Fisher Wright, The Original Mother Goose

     Old Mother Goose / When she wanted to wander / Would ride through the air / On a very fine gander.

2. A fool, simpleton
3. (slang, used only with “have”, “get” and “take”) A glance, look.

   Have a gander at what he’s written.

   I took a gander and she seemed so familiar.

Synonyms

• (slang, look): butcher's, butcher's hook (Cockney rhyming slang for "look")

Derived terms

• Michigander
• what's good for the goose is good for the gander
• what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander

Translations

Verb

gander ‎(third-person singular simple present ganders, present participle gandering, simple past and past participle gandered)

1. (dialect, intransitive) ramble, wander

Anagrams

• danger
• garden
• grande
• ranged

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology

Most likely from English gander or Low German gander, ganner. Both are possibly formed from gans ‎(“goose”) in an analogous way as kater ‎(“male cat”) from kat ‎(“(female) cat”) and doffer ‎(“male dove”) from duif ‎(“(female) dove”).

Noun

gander m ‎(plural ganders, diminutive gandertje n)

1. gander, male goose

Synonyms

• (male goose): ganzerik, gent, mannetjesgans

Anagrams

• dragen