DCHP-3

laughing goose

[from its harsh call, resembling laughter]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a grayish-brown goose, Anser albifrons, having a white face and a black-blotched breast and breeding in the Canadian Arctic.

Quotations

1743
Laug'hing geese are of the size of a weywey. . . .
1833
"Large flocks of the Laughing Goose have passed southward since dusk."
1921
Then, after that, the sky soon becomes mottled with flying birds of many kinds: gray geese, laughing geese, waveys, and white geese, as well as great flocks of ducks of many kinds.
1956
White-fronted goose [is also called] laughing goose (. . . Early use Edwards 1750. "N.W.T.," Man, Sask.). . . .