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Anserine

adjective
1.
Of or resembling a goose.
2.
Having or revealing stupidity.  Synonyms: dopey, dopy, foolish, gooselike, goosey, goosy, jerky.  "A dopey answer" , "A dopey kid" , "Some fool idea about rewriting authors' books"





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"Anserine" Quotes from Famous Books



... strength she held him firm in her grip and threatened to throw him into a pond if he persisted in his attempted chastisement. Since then he had respected her person, but to the day of his death he had cursed her for anserine stupidity. An unlovely, loveless and unloved old man. Why should Blanquette have wept over him? She had not the Parisian's highly strung temperament and capacity for facile emotion. She was peasant to the core, slow to rejoice, and slow to grieve, and she had the peasant's remorseless logic ...
— The Beloved Vagabond • William J. Locke
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... easy for you, middle-aged reader, sitting over this page in the broad daylight, to call me by all manner of asinine and anserine unchristian names, because I had these fancies running through my head. I don't care much for your abuse. The question is not, what it is reasonable for a man to think about, but what he actually does think about, in the dark, and when he is alone, ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 25, November, 1859 • Various
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