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goop

1 American  
[goop] / gup /

noun

Informal.

  1. a bad-mannered or inconsiderate person; clod; boor.

goop 2 American  
[goop] / gup /

noun

Slang.

  1. a viscous or sticky substance; goo.

goop British  
/ ɡuːp /

noun

  1. a rude or ill-mannered person

  2. any sticky or semiliquid substance

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of goop1

Expressive coinage, apparently first used by Gelett Burgess in his book Goops and How to Be Them (1900)

Origin of goop2

1955–60; expressive coinage akin to glop, gook 1, etc.

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