goshwowboyoboy
adjEtymology
Blend of gosh + wow + boy + oh boy. Derived from a caption ("Gosh! Wow! Boyohboy! The mosta and the besta!") used in the July 10, 1939 issue of Time magazine, reprinted from a letter in the August 1939 issue of science fiction pulp magazine Thrilling Wonder Stories, in an article about the first World Science Fiction Convention, aka Nycon I, held in New York in July 1939.
Definitions
Of or pertaining to a juvenile overenthusiasm
Of or pertaining to a juvenile overenthusiasm; naive; uncritical.
- The names you cite are as familiar to me as they are to you, and as fondly remembered. But I also remember the crap, and the naive goshwowboyoboy attitude of fellow neo-phans. I remember it well because I suffered from it.
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Vish — recursive loop
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA