gushy

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But for the most part, it's just this really, really wet, kind of gushy snow.

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  1. adjective Marked by excessive displays of sentiment or enthusiasm.

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  • Instead of a businesslike handshake she stepped close enough to peck at his cheek in the traditional gushy, phony manner of the publishing industry. —  Cyberbooks
  • Podski exonerated the Excelsis Club, but confessed that the headwaiter, a Kranjovian, had discovered the lakeside passageway and had arranged for the spy ring to meet secretly at the club. —  Tom Swift Jr And His Atomic Earth Blaster
  • She certainly never would have expected herself to get all goosy - gushy over losing her maidenhead, and the prospect of carrying and bearing a child actually exc ited her. —  Wizard and Glass
  • But for the most part, it's just this really, really wet, kind of gushy snow. —  CNN Transcript Feb 1, 2007
  • WOLF: Listen, I ` m not a gushy type of person, but I will say this, that I believe that the representation that they ` re doing, and I will tell you this, that Oliver Stone himself is very, very keen on getting this right. —  CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2005
 

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/ˈgəʃi/
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