Answer to "Silly sort" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word GOOSE , but the solution may also be TWIT which is one of the most recent solution (2019 in Wall Street Journal).

Silly sort crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
GOOSE	55 %	5
TWIT	25 %	4
ASS	10 %	3
GOOFBALL	5 %	8
TOMFOOL	5 %	7

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Silly sort

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• goose
• ass
• tomfool
• twit
• ape
• bad
• beast
• bimbo
• coot
• fool
• fooling
• goof

Crossword Answer definitions

GOOSE noun

1. Any of various grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae, which have feathers and webbed feet and are capable of flying, swimming, and walking on land, and which are bigger than ducks.
2. A female goose (sense 1).
3. The flesh of the goose used as food.
4. A silly person.
5. A tailor's iron, heated in live coals or embers, used to press fabrics.
6. A young woman or girlfriend.
7. An old English board game in which players moved counters along a board, earning a double move when they reached the picture of a goose.

GOOSE verb

1. To sharply poke or pinch someone's buttocks. Derived from a goose's inclination to bite at a retreating intruder's hindquarters.
2. To stimulate, to spur.
3. To gently accelerate an automobile or machine, or give repeated small taps on the accelerator.
4. (UK slang) Of private-hire taxi drivers, to pick up a passenger who has not pre-booked a cab. This is unauthorised under UK licensing conditions.
5. To hiss (a performer) off the stage.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution

More clues leading to the result GOOSE

• Honker
• When you're in trouble, it's cooked
• Pinch
• Bay off Labrador
• Zero, with 101 Down
• Down provider
• Quill supplier
• Skein member
• Foie gras source
• Golden-egg layer

More clues leading to the result TWIT

• Make fun of
• Ridicule
• Shit-for-brains
• Dope
• Insignificant one
• Fool
• Ninny
• Taunt
• Buffoon
• Doofus

More clues leading to the result ASS

• Balaam's beast
• Balaam's mount
• Beast of burden
• Burdened beast
• Donkey
• Mule's father
• Dolt
• Stubborn one
• Stupid one
• Total idiot

More clues leading to the result GOOFBALL

• Silly sort
• Cut-up
• Dance for dodos?
• Knucklehead

More clues leading to the result TOMFOOL

• Idiotic
• Blockhead
• Relative of Simple Simon.
• Buffoon.
• Harebrained
• Cockamamie
• Silly sort