goo

[goo]

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noun Informal.

a thick or sticky substance: Wash that goo off your hands.

maudlin sentimentality.

Origin of goo

1910–15, Americanism; perhaps short for burgoo

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Related Words for goo

muck, sludge, gunk, slush, crud, ooze, guck, gook, glop, yuck

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Contemporary Examples of goo

By the third take, the goo was dripping off my lips, and I heard Steven yell, ‘Cut!’
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Anna Klassen
April 6, 2013
Is Glee itself a cynical calculation, with its methodical recipe of skepticism and goo?
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Caryn James
May 18, 2009

Historical Examples of goo

I took Googoo because he does love it so, and—Goo, be still, I tell you!
The Portygee
Joseph Crosby Lincoln
He put his mouth to the keyhole and roared the soothing words "Goo' dog!"
Love Among the Chickens
P. G. Wodehouse
And to this day when you see a baby crowing and saying "Goo, goo!"
The Book of Stories for the Storyteller
Fanny E. Coe
Put it in your pocket, quick—say no more 'bout it, Goo' ni'.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, December 17, 1887
Various
And you mustn't goo for to think, sir, that goo I would now, if stay I could.
Cripps, the Carrier
R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

British Dictionary definitions for goo

goo

noun informal

a sticky or viscous substance

coy or sentimental language or ideas

Word Origin for goo

C20: of uncertain origin

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Word Origin and History for goo

1903, American English, of obscure origin, probably a back-formation from gooey.