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goo

noun
/ɡuː/

Etymology

Etymology tree English burgoo? Proto-Indo-European *gleyH- Proto-Indo-European *glóh₁ytn̥ Proto-Italic *gloiten Latin glūten Late Latin glūs Old French glubor. Middle English glew English glue? English goo American English, attested since 1903, possibly from burgoo (“thick porridge”); alternatively, an alteration of glue.

Definitions

  1. Any semi-solid or liquid substance

    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.

  2. Excessive, showy sentimentality.

  3. To apply goo to something.

    • They gooed their hair with some fragrant styling product.
  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. A noise made by a baby trying to imitate speech.

      • The infant's goos and gahs were endearing.

    2. To produce baby talk.

      • The baby gooed while daddy made sappy faces at it.
      • The baby gooed but didn't let go; instead he decided he would taste it. Lou quickly tried to get the baby to release his trophy but to no avail.
      • The baby gooed. Danny smiled.

    3. 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.

    4. 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.
      • I means to goo to th' mop, 'er sez, fur I waants a chahinge.[…]'T wuz to w:Muckley mop 'er went.

    5. A surname.

    6. Initialism of gastric outlet obstruction.

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Derived

goo to you by way of the zoo, girl goo, goo ball, gooey, gooeyness, goo-gob, goolike, grey goo, guck, man goo

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for goo. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA