gooey
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gooey
- /ˈɡuːi/ UK
- /ˈɡui/ US
Sounds like GUI · Rhymes with -uːi
Where it comes from
The adjective is derived from goo + -ey (a variant of -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having the quality of’)). The noun is derived from the adjective.
adjective gooeyer · gooier · gooeyest · gooiest
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Having the consistency of goo: soft or viscous, and sticky.
gooey liquid covered the floor
Similar: goolike, ooey-gooey, oozy
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Emotional or sentimental, especially to an excessive extent; mushy, soppy.
What flower has been bred in more than three thousand varieties, and become the symbol of the gooeyest human sentimentality and pampering?
Similar: maudlin, mawkish, treacly, bathetic, cheesy, squishy, corny, drippy, gooey, hokey, icky, kitsch · Opposite: unemotional, unsentimental
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Distasteful, unpleasant.
Mr. Hugh Dillman's Palm Beach divorce suit will be gooey, Three of his golf-playing ???? will be mentioned …
Similar: abhorrant, abhorrent, bad, sickly, mean, infernal, bum, horrid, vile, demonic, disagreeable, disgusting · Opposite: acceptable, agreeable, amiable, charming, comely, nice, pleasant, pleasing, welcome
noun gooeys · gooies
- A thing which is soft or viscous, and sticky. On impulse, Pat stopped at a bakery. […] He came out with a box full of gooies—éclairs, cream horns, Napoleons— […] and we parked outside the college grounds and ate them, yapping at each other and smearing ourselves with chocolate and cream.
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A person who is regarded as weak or worthless; a fool.
But only a confirmed chump and irremediable ‘gooey’ comes up for a third ‘chuck.’ […] ‘Jest jollyin’ these gooeys, that’s how’, he said.
Similar: absolute zero, assbucket, asswipe, badling, blatherskite, bugger, carrion, cipher, cockstain, crumb, custron, dandiprat
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A person who favours closer relationships with other people and less structured settings, rather than formal, organized settings; also, an educational approach, curriculum, etc., which is less structured.
Planned variation was based on systematically applying different educational approaches developed by academic experts, each of whom was to become a "sponsor" of a single type of program – from highly structured classroom models, sometimes called "pricklies," to open classrooms and more exploratory e
Opposite: prickly
Translations
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adj having the consistency of goo: soft or viscous, and sticky
| Español | ajonjoso, baboso, ligamazoso, lirioso, mantecoso, masacotudo |
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| Português | gosmento, melequento |
| Français | gluant |
| Deutsch | klebrig, zähflüssig |
| Ελληνικά | γλοιώδης gloiódis |
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title = {gooey},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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