gosling
part of speech
noun (a gosling, goslings)
meaning for a pupil
1) A baby goose. tree →
2) (rare) A young, silly or inexperienced person. tree →
sense in the lessons
In nature and farm stories and lessons on animal babies (duckling, cygnet, gosling). Phrases: fluffy goslings, a goose and her goslings.
examples
- The goose led her goslings down to the pond. tree →
- Goslings are covered in soft yellow fluff. tree →
- We saw six goslings at the park in spring. tree →
- A baby duck is a duckling and a baby goose is a gosling. tree →
- The goslings followed the farmer as if he were their mother. tree →
- The gosling hid under its mother's wing. tree →
- There is another version in which the impertinent gosling goes to tell the fox something her mother has said, and is caught; and there may be other versions. tree →
note
Plural goslings. Baby birds: duck - duckling, goose - gosling, swan - cygnet, owl - owlet. Goslings imprint: they follow the first moving thing they see.
Trees and pragmatics
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