goo

plural goos

1. informaluncountableusuallyAny semi-solid or liquid substance; especially one that is sticky, gummy or slippery, unpleasant, and of vague or unknown composition, such as slime or semen.

   I stepped in some goo and had a terrible time getting the sticky stuff off my shoes.

   Synonyms: gloop, goop, gunge, gunk

2. figurativelyuncountableusuallyExcessive, showy sentimentality.

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   […] To be really human is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naive and goo-prone and generally pathetic, is to be in some basic interior way forever infantile, some sort of not-quite-right-looking infant dragging itself anaclitically around the map, with big wet eyes and froggy-soft skin, huge skull, gooey drool.

   1996, David Foster Wallace, “14 November Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment”, in Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, pages 694–695

   Synonyms: mawkishness, saccharinity, sugariness

present singular third person goos · participle present gooing · participle past gooed · past gooed

1. transitiveTo apply goo to something.

   They gooed their hair with some fragrant styling product.

plural goos

1. A noise made by a baby trying to imitate speech.

   The infant's goos and gahs were endearing.

present singular third person goos · participle present gooing · participle past gooed · past gooed

1. intransitiveTo produce baby talk.

   The baby gooed while daddy made sappy faces at it.

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   The baby gooed but didn't let go; instead he decided he would taste it. Lou quickly tried to get the baby to release his trophy but to no avail.

   2010, Frances Gaddy Stegall, Rafter T Ranch, page 179

   The baby gooed. Danny smiled.

   2013, Susan Meier, A Father for Her Triplets: Her Pregnancy Surprise, page 359

1. Elongated form of go.

   Lowry put out a social media post to his more than 907,000 Twitter followers saying, "Miami Heat X Kyle Lowry" and "Let's Goo!!" followed by five fire emojis.

   2021 August 2, Neil Davidson, “Kyle Lowry era over in Toronto as Raptors great signs with Miami Heat”, in CBC

2. Northern EnglandScotlandWest Midlandspronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of go.

   I means to goo to th' mop, 'er sez, fur I waants a chahinge.[…]'T wuz to w:Muckley mop 'er went.

   1897, Hamilton Kingsford, Vigornian Monologues: A Series of Papers in Illustration of the Dialect of Worcestershire, page 18

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   Well, then, things are settled, an' I'll goo an' finish yond pigs off," said my new employer, rising from his chair, and flapping his crush hat upon his head as if he was killing flies.

   1886, w:Benjamin Brierley, Cast Upon the World - The Story of a Waif, Heywood, →ISBN, page 218

plural Goos

1. A surname from Korean.

1. abbreviationinitialismuncountableInitialism of gastric outlet obstruction.