Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal A sticky wet viscous substance.
- n. Informal Sentimental drivel.
Wiktionary
- n. An example of baby talk.
- v. intransitive To produce baby talk.
- n. uncountable, informal Any semi-solid or liquid substance; especially one that is sticky, gummy or slippery; frequently of vague or unknown composition, or a bodily fluid.
- n. Excessive, showy sentimentality
- v. transitive To apply goo to something.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any thick, viscous matter
Etymologies
- American English, known since 1903, probably from burgoo ("thick porridge") (1787), possibly an alteration of glue. (Wiktionary)
- Perhaps short for burgoo. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Now many of our Christians have what I call the goo-goo syndrome - good government.”
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“His mother thinks 'goo' is awful childish, and she is at him all the time to say 'Daddy-dinger,' but he never lets on he hears her.”
“The only thing this butt-hole nitwit should be left in charge of is cleaning the brown goo from the church coffee urn.”
“Steen: The point at which you're mixing up your own engine goo is when it goes from being a "hobby" to a "borderline deathwish" ...”
“So, as I write, yellowy green goo is building up in my lacrimal system and requires repetitive and tender cleaning every half hour or so, which is fun.”
“The Sanskrit word for matter is gu, curiously similar to our English word goo, a sticky substance in which one can get stuck.”
“They layer me in goo and basically mummify me without taking my organs.”
“ZJCW: Pardon me, but I was drinking brains when I read this, and laughing sprayed brain goo all over my computer monitor.”
“It is warming up to burn the appropriate set of neural pathways into a now-lifeless hunk of proto-brain goo awaiting insertion in a clone body.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘goo’.
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Change one letter
Change one letter in the title of an existing book, and create an entirely new literary work. Add a one-sentence comment, describing the new work.
all the pretty ho..., the brothels kara..., caesar's garlic wars, the unbearable ti..., a heartbreaking w..., the good marrow, the right stiff, lady windermere's..., infinite pest, the cremains of t..., eyes on the pride, the spoils of boy... and 747 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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Words that can be spelled on an upsid...
Imagine my joy when I was wearing my calculator watch and was first introduced to someone named Leslie - there was exactly enough room on the display for 317537.14.
Edit: I've discove...hi, hello, leslie, sheesh, she, bells, hells, hog, boss, goggles, he, bob and 233 more...
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3 Letter Words
A list of English words that are three letters long.
ace, act, ade, ado, add, ads, age, ago, ail, air, aim, all and 397 more...
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Cool Words
Cool Words!
awesome, alpaca, waffle, schpazam!, whisper, pants, goo, pantsful, roundhand, socks, cell phone, accent and 2 more...
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Browning words of cotton - often stic...
words that meander or have a partial dimension:
words that "catch on": peano curves: fractalitescotton, clue, filament, filaria, filum, filovirus, clod, cloud, peano curve, alveoli, nuance, noil and 122 more...
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3LW
3 letter words, not the girl band.
boggle and speed scrabble would not be half as fun without them.aah, boa, dot, fun, ick, log, oca, pyx, sos, was, aal, bob and 342 more...
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Dr. Jamieson's Birds
A rich list of Scottish bird (nick)names and related terms cited in Dr. Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary and Supplement, 1841.
stone-chatter, clocharet, bowger, coulter-neb, branchers, brissel-cock, turkey-cock, brongie, bubblyjock, polliecock, bullfit, bullfrench and 220 more...
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Reading Reading
Words from the works of Peter Reading - at least one from each (except the Schwitters-esque erosions, cut-ups etc).
overbright, pimpled, muskiness, effuse, stoup, maul, unlevel, viscid, perfidious, glibly, aloes, drouth and 449 more...
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Prattle Words
"I like quesadillas!" All the fun words for the non-stop babbler's vocabulary.
quesadilla, tintinnabulation, cacophony, obliterate, miff, melancholy, technobabble, plump, onomatomania, quaternary, pizzazz, confuzzle and 15 more...
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the opposite of sympathy
words I dislike, rationally or not.
money, paddy, goo, shout, forte, nihilistic, emo, indie, blubber, pathetic, proem, blithe and 17 more...
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brady9's Words
bouffant, ointment, whatnot, nevermore, oriole, goo, mimosa, dishcloth, reliquary, errant, ostentatious, requisite and 58 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for goo.
alpacalover goo is cool! Jan 31, 2010
yarb Citation on ooze. Jun 23, 2008
sionnach Jane Smiley on pudding. Jan 31, 2008