Etymology

googie

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Today it means: Of a style of futurist modern American commercial architecture, popular from the 1950s to the early 1970s. Full definition →

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googie · noun1

From Irish and Scottish Gaelic gugaí/gogaí/gogaidh, a nursery word for an egg.

Googie · adjective2

From Googie's Coffee Shop, name of a now-defunct coffee shop in West Hollywood, from the nickname of the original owner's wife.

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