gosling

Everyday

1. A baby goose. tree →
2. (rare) A young, silly or inexperienced person. tree →

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.