goo

See also: Goo, góo, go'o, goo', and -góó

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡuː/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -uː

Etymology 1

American English, known since 1903, probably from burgoo (“thick porridge”) (1787), possibly an alteration of glue.

Noun

goo (uncountable)

  1. (uncountable, informal) Any semi-solid or liquid substance; especially one that is sticky, gummy or slippery; frequently of vague or unknown composition, slime or a bodily fluid.
    I stepped in some goo and had a terrible time getting the sticky stuff off my shoes.
  2. Excessive, showy sentimentality.
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Verb

goo (third-person singular simple present goos, present participle gooing, simple past and past participle gooed)

  1. (transitive) To apply goo to something.
    They gooed their hair with some fragrant styling product.

Etymology 2

(onomatopoeia)

Noun

goo (plural goos)

  1. An example of baby talk.
    The infant's goos and gahs were endearing.

Verb

goo (third-person singular simple present goos, present participle gooing, simple past and past participle gooed)

  1. (intransitive) To produce baby talk.
    The baby gooed while daddy made sappy faces at it.

See also

References

  • “goo” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2018.
  • Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Anagrams

Dutch

Etymology

Germanic, of uncertain origin

Noun

goo f (plural [please provide], diminutive [please provide])

  1. Alternative form of gouw

Anagrams

Esperanto

Noun

goo (accusative singular goon, plural gooj, accusative plural goojn)

  1. The board game go

Manx

Etymology 1

From Old Irish guth, from Proto-Celtic *gutus, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰuHtus, from *ǵʰewH- (“to call on, invoke”).

Noun

goo m (genitive singular goo, plural googhyn)

  1. voice
  2. word, reputation

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
goo ghoo ngoo
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Etymology 2

Noun

goo

  1. Eclipsed form of coo.

Middle English

Etymology

See gon.

Verb

goo

  1. go

References

p. 1, Arthur; A Short Sketch of his Life and History in English Verse of the First Half of the Fifteenth Century, Frederick Furnivall ed. EETS. Trübner & Co.: London. 1864.

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