Word.ws English Dictionary

ganderer

ganderer is the agent noun of gander.

Meaning of gander

Noun

gander (plural ganders)

  1. A male goose.
    • Ganders and geese are at their best for stock from two to ten years old. They live to a great age—it is stated to thirty or more years—but after ten years they cannot be reckoned upon as reliable assets on a farm. Two years old is the best age to mate them, making up pens of a gander and two or...1902, Lewis Wright, “Geese and Swans”, in The New Book of Poultry […], London; […]: Cassell and Company, Limited, page 560, column 1
  2. A fool, simpleton.
  3. (informal) A glance, look.
    • Have a gander at what he’s written.
  4. (US) A man living apart from his wife.

See all 7 meanings of gander

Forms of ganderer

pluralganderers

Questions about ganderer

What is ganderer the agent noun of?
Ganderer is the agent noun of gander.

Words near ganderer in the dictionary

  1. gander months
  2. gander parties
  3. gander party
  4. Ganderbal
  5. gandered
  6. ganderer
  7. ganderers
  8. gandergoose
  9. gandering
  10. ganderism
  11. ganderling

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ganderer (page history and authors); gander (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “ganderer.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/ganderer. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.