Those intrigued by such oddities … will surely find Stuart Kelly's "Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read" worth a gander. Joe Queenan
… trying to step back for a good gander at the art in the Guggenheim. Charles Taylor
… had no choice but to push to the front of the horde and through some glass doors to get a gander at what was going on. Rick Barrs
Middle English gandre, gander, going back to Old English gandra, ganra, going back to Germanic *gan-ra- (whence Middle Low German ganre "male goose," Upper German dialect Gander, Ganter), derivative from the base of Germanic *gan-s- "goose" — more at goose entry 1
Noun (2)
probably derivative of gander entry 1, from the goose-like appearance of a person stretching to look at something
First Known Use
Noun (1)
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1