goo

[ goo ]

noun

, Informal.

1. a thick or sticky substance:

   Wash that goo off your hands.

2. maudlin sentimentality.

goo

/ ɡuː /

noun

1. a sticky or viscous substance
2. coy or sentimental language or ideas

Word History and Origins

Origin of goo¹

1910–15, Americanism; perhaps short for burgoo

Word History and Origins

Origin of goo¹

C20: of uncertain origin

Example Sentences

They watched the end zone transform into the Slime Zone, with four geysers superimposed onto the field, spewing green goo all over the screen.

From Washington Post

They become soft enough to nearly burst through their skins into a sweet, oozing, jellyish goo.

From Eater

When animals and plants die and are buried in the earth for thousands of years, their bodies become the goo we call oil.

From Voice of San Diego

They have super-sensitive noses and use snouts full of goo to detect faint electrical signals from their prey.

From Science News For Students

That summer, ruptured oil pipelines emptied thousands of barrels of murky goo into Red Butte Creek in Utah, Yellowstone River in Montana and Kalamazoo River in Michigan.

From Popular-Science

Napalm is the infamous, goo-like substance that burns quickly when lit on fire and adheres easily to skin.

From The Daily Beast

On Dec. 10, at 8:27 a.m., baby Quentin came into the world purple and covered in white goo.

From The Daily Beast

By the third take, the goo was dripping off my lips, and I heard Steven yell, ‘Cut!’

From The Daily Beast

She makes personal appearances and people go goo-goo ga-ga over her—all over the U.S. and internationally.

From The Daily Beast

New leaders come to Washington and immediately get stuck in the bureaucratic goo.

From The Daily Beast

And to this day the Indians say that when a baby cries "Goo" he remembers the time when he conquered the mighty Glooskap.

From Project Gutenberg

Indeed, The Hopper's spirits rose under his continued "goo-gooing" and chirruping.

From Project Gutenberg

As for Mabel, she was one of them gushy, goo-gooey kind of girls, and she was as struck with the shebang as her dad.

From Project Gutenberg

Dave shrugged his shoulders and replied evasively: "Pretty goo' fishin' groun' here at 'Pete's Patch.'"

From Project Gutenberg

My missis an' the maids they won't goo near the church to-night, an' I wager no one else won't, neither.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• gunk
• muck
• sludge