goshwowboyoboy

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1. datedderogatoryslanglifestyleOf or pertaining to a juvenile overenthusiasm; naive; uncritical.

   The names you cite are as familiar to me as they are to you, and as fondly remembered. But I also remember the crap, and the naive goshwowboyoboy attitude of fellow neo-phans. I remember it well because I suffered from it.

   1999 September 18, Reed Andrus, “Re: *New Online Literary Journal! (In which Pelan invokes Sturgeon's Law...)”, in rec.arts.horror.written (Usenet), message-ID <37E2E6DD.E4B68042@home.com>

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   I am one of the few fans that still have a copy of Spacewarp, No. 1, Vol. 1. As a first issue it was about as sickly a mag as you could ask for, and the fellow that was editing it sounded like the ultimate in "goshwowoboyoboy" new fans. I frankly expected it to be the last issue, and didn't subscribe.

   1950 September, Rick Sneary, “The Editorial”, in Spacewarp, volume 7, number 6 (whole number 42), archived from the original on 22 Dec 2019, page 2

   I'm letting one of the plot kittens out of the bag, but the book is such a delight that it'll do no serious harm if I tell you that it concerns a pulp science fiction editor who finds himself in a rip-roaring alien-plagued super-hero naked-heroine universe that exists in the mind of one of his goshwowboyoboy teen-aged readers.

   2003, Mike Resnick, “Forgotten Treasures”, in Resnick at Large, →ISBN, page 56

   Synonyms: goshwow