goo
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goo¹
- /ɡuː/
Rhymes with -uː
Where it comes from
American English, attested since 1903, possibly from burgoo (“thick porridge”); alternatively, an alteration of glue.
noun goos
- Any semi-solid or liquid substance; especially one that is sticky, gummy or slippery, unpleasant, and of vague or unknown composition, such as slime or semen. I stepped in some goo and had a terrible time getting the sticky stuff off my shoes.
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Excessive, showy sentimentality.
[…] To be really human is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naive and goo-prone and generally pathetic, is to be in some basic interior way forever infantile, some sort of not-quite-right-looking infant dragging itself anaclitically around the map, with big wet eyes and froggy-soft skin, hu
Similar: mawkishness, saccharinity, sugariness
Similar: gleet, gloop, glop, goo, gook, goop, gunge, gunk, gum, ick, muck, ooze, paste, slop, sludge, slime
verb goos · gooing · gooed
- To apply goo to something. They gooed their hair with some fragrant styling product.
goo²
- /ɡuː/
Rhymes with -uː
Where it comes from
Onomatopoeic of baby talk.
noun goos
- A noise made by a baby trying to imitate speech. The infant's goos and gahs were endearing.
Similar: gleet, gloop, glop, goo, gook, goop, gunge, gunk, gum, ick, muck, ooze, paste, slop, sludge, slime
verb goos · gooing · gooed
- To produce baby talk. The baby gooed while daddy made sappy faces at it.
goo³
- /ɡuː/
Rhymes with -uː
Where it comes from
See go.
verb
- Elongated form of go. Lowry put out a social media post to his more than 907,000 Twitter followers saying, "Miami Heat X Kyle Lowry" and "Let's Goo!!" followed by five fire emojis.
- Pronunciation spelling of go Well, then, things are settled, an' I'll goo an' finish yond pigs off," said my new employer, rising from his chair, and flapping his crush hat upon his head as if he was killing flies.
Goo⁴
Where it comes from
From the Korean surname, spelling variant of Koo. Also see Gu.
proper noun Goos
- A surname from Korean.
GOO⁵
noun
- Initialism of gastric outlet obstruction
Thesaurus
Translations
Every language
noun sticky or gummy semi-solid or liquid substance
| Español | pez, visco, ligamaza, ajonje, ajonjo, liria |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | ネバネバしたもの nebaneba shita mono |
| Português | gosma, nhanha |
| Français | matière poisseuse f mucus |
| Deutsch | Schmiere, Klebstoff, Soße, klebriges Zeug, Papp |
| Italiano | melma |
| Русский | слизь slizʹ, вя́зкое vjázkoje, ли́пкое lípkoje |
noun sentimentality
| Español | cursilería, huachafería |
|---|---|
| Português | meloso |
| Deutsch | Schmalz, übertriebene Sentimentalität |
| Русский | сентимента́льщина sentimentálʹščina |
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title = {goo},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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