All goose synonyms
goose
G g verb goose
- put up β planned beforehand in a secret or crafty manner: a put-up job.
- take up β the act of taking.
- uprear β to raise up; lift: The horse upreared its head and whinnied.
- jack up β an increase or rise: a recent jack-up in prices.
- move up β to pass from one place or position to another.
- innerve β to supply with nervous energy; invigorate; animate.
- touch off β to put the hand, finger, etc., on or into contact with (something) to feel it: He touched the iron cautiously.
- baffle β If something baffles you, you cannot understand it or explain it.
- bamboozle β To bamboozle someone means to confuse them greatly and often trick them.
- beat β If you beat someone or something, you hit them very hard.
- bewilder β If something bewilders you, it is so confusing or difficult that you cannot understand it.
- cap β A cap is a soft, flat hat with a curved part at the front which is called a peak. Caps are usually worn by men and boys.
- cheat β When someone cheats, they do not obey a set of rules which they should be obeying, for example in a game or exam.
- circumvent β If someone circumvents a rule or restriction, they avoid having to obey the rule or restriction, in a clever and perhaps dishonest way.
- confuse β If you confuse two things, you get them mixed up, so that you think one of them is the other one.
- deceive β If you deceive someone, you make them believe something that is not true, usually in order to get some advantage for yourself.
- defeat β If you defeat someone, you win a victory over them in a battle, game, or contest.
- defraud β If someone defrauds you, they take something away from you or stop you from getting what belongs to you by means of tricks and lies.
- dupe β duplicate.
- finagle β to trick, swindle, or cheat (a person) (often followed by out of): He finagled the backers out of a fortune.
- gull β a person who is easily deceived or cheated; dupe.
- have β Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
- hoax β something intended to deceive or defraud: The Piltdown man was a scientific hoax.
- hoodwink β to deceive or trick.
- mislead β to lead or guide wrongly; lead astray.
- outdo β to surpass in execution or performance: The cook outdid himself last night.
- outfox β to outwit; outsmart; outmaneuver: Politics is often the art of knowing how to outfox the opposition.
- outmaneuver β to outwit, defeat, or frustrate by maneuvering.
- overreach β to reach or extend over or beyond: The shelf overreached the nook and had to be planed down.
- swindle β to cheat (a person, business, etc.) out of money or other assets.
- take in β the act of taking.
- top β Technical/Office Protocol
- trick β a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
- worst β in ill health; sick: He felt badly.
- outthink β to excel in thinking; think faster, more accurately, or more perceptively than: outthinking most of her contemporaries in the field of human relations.
- fox β Free Objects for Crystallography
- make a fool of β To cause (someone) to seem foolish.
- outgeneral β to outdo or surpass in generalship.
- outguess β to anticipate correctly the actions or intentions of; outwit.
- outjockey β to outmaneuver: We outjockeyed the competition and got our bid in first.
- put out β a throw or cast, especially one made with a forward motion of the hand when raised close to the shoulder.
- get a rise out of β to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me. With great effort he rose to his knees.
- give a hard time β a period of difficulties or hardship.
- give the business β an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
noun goose
- right stuff β the necessary or ideal qualities or capabilities, as courage, confidence, dependability, toughness, or daring (usually preceded by the).
- alluring β Someone or something that is alluring is very attractive.
- snow job β an attempt to deceive or persuade by using flattery or exaggeration.
- inveiglement β to entice, lure, or ensnare by flattery or artful talk or inducements (usually followed by into): to inveigle a person into playing bridge.
- arm-twist β to subject to arm-twisting: The unions arm-twisted the government into negotiating by threatening widespread strikes.