ganderling

ganderling noun: a young gander (male goose).

Noun

ganderling (plural ganderlings)

(rare) A young gander (male goose).
- Can any of our readers give this correspondent the name applied to a young gander? Some one has suggested that, since a young goose is a gosling (goose-ling) a young gander should be a ganderling.[1911, The Canadian Teacher, volume XVI, Toronto, Ont.: Educational Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 733, column 2
- Last spring Si found a goose egg twice as big as the regulation goose egg and he put it under the Mrs. Goose when she was ready to set. The result was just as Si had expected, for when the month was up and Si raised up one section of Mrs. Goose to take a peep underneath her he saw two of the finest...1921 October 28, O. U. Squash [pseudonym], editor, “Pumpkin Hill News: Si Is No Goose”, in Washington Citizen, volume XVII, number 19, Washington, Mo., →OCLC, page 8, column 4

Goose to take a peep underneath her he saw two of the finest ganderlings that he had ever had the pleasure of setting before his eyes.1921 October 28, O. U. Squash [pseudonym], editor, “Pumpkin Hill News: Si Is No Goose”, in Washington Citizen, volume XVII, number 19...
Joseph Stelmach, still another Daytonian, is represented by two lithographs, Korean in inspiration: “Child With Basket” and “Ganderlings.”1959 August 16, Frederick Yeiser, “In Art Circles: Abstractionism—Is It Trash?”, in The Cincinnati Enquirer, 119th year, number 129...
In this breed, the down of the ganderling is yellow while the young female is greyish.1978, Rick Luttmann, Gail Luttmann, “Sexing”, in Ducks & Geese in Your Backyard: A Beginner’s Guide, Emmaus, Pa.: Rodale Press, →ISBN...
What's got me bothered is that I have the opposite situation -- 3 hatched and survived (well, this long, going on 2 months for the oldest), but I've got one goose and 2 ganderlings.2011 July 5, Denninmi, “How many female geese should you have per gander?”, in BackYard Chickens, archived from the original on 04 Jun...

plural	ganderlings

From gander + -ling, after gosling.

What does ganderling mean?: Ganderling means a young gander (male goose).
How do you use ganderling in a sentence?: Goose to take a peep underneath her he saw two of the finest ganderlings that he had ever had the pleasure of setting before his eyes.
What part of speech is ganderling?: Ganderling is a noun.
What is the plural of ganderling?: The plural of ganderling is ganderlings.

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