Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Chiefly Southern U.S. See peanut.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The peanut, Arachis hypogœa. Also spelled gouber.
Wiktionary
- n. southern US A peanut.
- n. slang A foolish, simple, or amusingly silly person.
- n. southern US, euphemistic penis
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Southern U. S. A peanut.
WordNet 3.0
- n. pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms
Etymologies
- From Kongo nguba ("peanut"). (Wiktionary)
- Of Bantu origin; akin to Kongo or Kimbundu n-guba. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“[2] See remarks on the term goober, in note on page 9.”
“The goober is a straight A Senior, and this shorted our even his reasoning skills.”
Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Monsters | Her Bad Mother
“I bet Lindsey 'goober' Graham is starting to feel dumb now clement”
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“So what does it say about her platform if she needs the "goober" vote to get elected?”
“Is there some point at which a human being is reduced to a "goober" (once known as a bodily discharge small chldren enjoy messing with)?”
“Well of course you're in denial. by jpsmith123 on Friday, Jun 22, 2007 at 6: 16: 15 PM calling people names like "goober" by CB Brooklyn on Friday, Jun 22, 2007 at 11: 53: 47 PM”
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“[1] While "goober" may be one of the names of the Peanut in some localities, the plant so-called in Georgia is _Amphicarpæa monoica_, a native leguminous plant with two kinds of flowers, one set always subterranean, and the other above ground.”
“Chamber of Commerce mind should thrust aside such things in favor of the mighty "goober," which is a thing of to-day, a thing for which Norfolk is said to be the greatest of all markets.”
“The shots of he and Slade pulling faces for their Texan classmates are especially memorable, as is the video of the teenage comic, all puppy fat and with the first of a succession of terrible haircuts, impersonating his 'goober' father at the Comedy Workshop in Houston.”
“* To our European readers: a "goober" is a peanut in its basic form.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘goober’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Cepstrums
to cepstrumize a word is to reverse its 1st 4 characters in the way that "cepstrum" was derived from "spectrum" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cepstrum...
acedy, adustion, sudation, aedility, ideality, agentive, negative, agral, argal, agrestic, ergastic, alerce and 202 more...
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Enter the Rustics
A fanfare for the Common Man. Words for rustics, yokels, and woolhats of all sorts.
woolhat, yokel, rustic, hucklebuck, hick, redneck, bogan, goober, hayseed, bumpkin, countryman, peasant and 70 more...
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root tips and other ends
stolon, circinate, calyptrogen, meristem, verticil, fusiform, telomere, skirret, relbun, turpeth, galangal, vetiver and 54 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 2369 more... -
Just 'cause I like 'em, G
grocer, gabanergic, gabardine, gabbro, gaffe, gneiss, grapple, grosgrain, grommet, gratify, gossamer, goofy and 194 more...
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A little of the old Ultra-Violence
Gorgeousness and Gorgeosity made flesh- downright horrorshow selections of vocabulary from Nadsat, the Russian-influenced slang of the raping and face-stomping delinquents of Burgess's A Clockwork ...
appypolly loggy, baboochka, baddiwad, banda, bezoomy, bitva, bog, bolnoy, bolshy, bratchny, bratty, britva and 186 more...
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Idioms or Phrases or "expressions"
like nobody's bui..., soap up, plug away, country club, horse whisperer, cease and desist, eye of the beholder, small-claims court, nut job, heebie-jeebies, hole in the wall, black-tie and 101 more...
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Exotic Tastes
Interesting words related to food, ingredients, dishes, cookery, cuisines and so on. Exotic in this case is entirely subjective, with funkelberries on top.
tatty, neep, flummery, babaganoush, tahini, samphire, loblolly, scrumpy, fressen, luwak, duxelle, edamame and 213 more...
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RabidCow's Words
piledrive, schism, poignant, garrote, reflex, fortitude, constitution, dexterity, charisma, nemesis, machiavellian, poop and 128 more...
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SarahPants5's Words
huggle, squishy, glomp, fantabulous, etymology, gynotikolobomasso..., poptart, pinku, vodka, rump, goober, geeky and 37 more...
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minionmaster's Words
contemplating, slightly, shackles, wristguards, kneepads, serenity, reactant, lithium, argon, oxygen, dire, immense and 82 more...
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Interesting ones
As a second language, thank you.
ergophobia, quoz, pope, wobble, logos, vertebrate, masterpiece, mu, billabong, mojo, merkin, milieu and 76 more...
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dbca's Words
jeremiad, unto, sundry, lugubrious, fob, cromulent, foozle, eremite, factotum, guttle, toparch, comether and 20 more...
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Pruufreadr's Words
mica, leaf, geologist, geology, motocross, marshmallow, marshlands, everlasting, fidelity, whiskey, amazingly, forgotten and 47 more...
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halcyonwhimsy's Words
jesticulous, costrel, denegate, bailiwick, brigadoon, abderian, longinquity, goober, verdigris, halcyon, frippery
Tweets
Looking for tweets for goober.
reesetee Sitting by the roadside on a summer's day
Chatting with my mess-mates, passing time away
Lying in the shadows underneath the trees
Goodness, how delicious, eating goober peas.
Peas, peas, peas, peas
Eating goober peas
Goodness, how delicious,
Eating goober peas.
Oct 2, 2007
halcyonwhimsy When I think of this word I think of the American Civil War.
There is a Confederate (Virginian) song that is all about goobers ... well, goober PEAS.
Which, by the way, are actually peanuts. Oct 2, 2007