Sekirov Dictionary

gooey

/ˈɡuːi/

adjective 3
noun 3
forms 6

adjective3

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(informal) Having the consistency of goo: soft or viscous, and sticky.
- gooey liquid covered the floor
- The cookies, soft and gooey, proved a smash hit at the party.
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(informal, figurative) Emotional or sentimental, especially to an excessive extent; mushy, soppy.
- What flower has been bred in more than three thousand varieties, and become the symbol of the gooeyest human sentimentality and pampering? — 1956
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(figurative, no longer used) Distasteful, unpleasant.
- Mr. Hugh Dillman's Palm Beach divorce suit will be gooey, Three of his golf-playing ???? will be mentioned … — 1938

noun3

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(informal) A thing which is soft or viscous, and sticky.
- I put the "gooeys," green fluorescent snots, into Louie's nose, set up his brain, and get ready to play the game with my mom. We keep putting our fingers up Louie's nose and pulling gooeys out of it. — 1997
(informal, figurative) A person who favours closer relationships with other people and less structured settings, rather than formal, organized settings; also, an educational approach, curriculum, etc., which is less structured.
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(offensive, figurative) A person who is regarded as weak or worthless; a fool.
- But only a confirmed chump and irremediable ‘gooey’ comes up for a third ‘chuck.’ […] ‘Jest jollyin’ these gooeys, that’s how’, he said. — 1911

forms

gooeys · gooies · gooeyer · gooier · gooeyest · gooiest

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