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gooey

adj
/ˈɡuːi/UK/ˈɡui/US

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 Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -ey English gooey 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.

  1. formed as gooey — “goo + -ey”

Definitions

  1. Having the consistency of goo

    Having the consistency of goo: soft or viscous, and sticky.

    • gooey liquid covered the floor
    • The cookies, soft and gooey, proved a smash hit at the party.
    • [O]ysters, ice-cream, and plenty of chocolates with that goo-ey, slithery stuff in the middle. Makes you sick to think of it, eh?

  2. Emotional or sentimental, especially to an excessive extent

    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?
    • Nobody goes all gooey over a character like me and talks about having half a million dollars and offers me a trip to Rio and a nice home complete with all the luxuries.
    • And that cat turns my stomach. I thought you said Spaniards weren't gooey—I've never seen anybody gooeyer than she is about that thing.

  3. Distasteful, unpleasant.

    • Mr. Hugh Dillman's Palm Beach divorce suit will be gooey, Three of his golf-playing ???? will be mentioned …
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. A thing which is soft or viscous, and sticky.

      • I put the "gooeys," green fluorescent snots, into Louie's nose, set up his brain, and get ready to play the game with my mom. We keep putting our fingers up Louie's nose and pulling gooeys out of it.

    2. A person who is regarded as weak or worthless

      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.

    3. A person who favours closer relationships with other people and less structured settings,…

      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.

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Derived

gooey butter cake, gooeyness, gooiness, gooily, ooey-gooey

Vish — recursive loop

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