goo-goo

[goo-goo]

adjective Older Slang.

expressing adoration; foolishly amorous: They sat there making goo-goo eyes at each other.

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Historical Examples of goo-goo

"I can stand it if you can," says I, and she tips me a goo-goo smile that was all to the candied violets.
Shorty McCabe
Sewell Ford
Goo-Goo seemed like an intimate friend, because of the writing-lessons.
Nine Little Goslings
Susan Coolidge
But a month after he got there, Mussolini started to pop his goo-goo eyes at Ethiopia.
The Five Arrows
Allan Chase
It is goo-goo eyes or "git" when he looks toward a pretty girl.
The Voice of the City
O. Henry
It makes curious devilish noises when not satisfied, and says "goo-goo" when it is.
The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories
Mark Twain

Word Origin and History for goo-goo

adj.

"amorous," 1900, perhaps connected with goggle, because the earliest reference is in goo-goo eyes. The sense of "baby-talk" is from 1863. Use in reference to politics began 1890s, and seems to be a shortening of Good Government as a movement to clean up municipal corruption in Boston, New York, etc. It soon was extended to mean "naive political reformer."