groovy
[groo-vee]
- Slang. highly stimulating or attractive; excellent: groovy music; a groovy car.
- inclined to follow a fixed routine.
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Origin of groovy
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Contemporary Examples
These doctors make “conscious uncoupling” sound so groovy that actually being together begins to seem a little dowdy and dull.
Groovy, catchy, and refreshingly simple, it may be Gaga's most straightforward pop song yet.
No longer do the authors proclaim, “We must destroy the myth that we have to be groovy, free chicks.”
Historical Examples
And it is a groove; perhaps there was never anything so groovy.
All Things ConsideredG. K. Chesterton
But Mrs. Otway was much more original and more impulsive, thus far less “groovy,” than the people among whom her lot was cast.
Good Old AnnaMarie Belloc Lowndes
groovy
- slang, often jocular attractive, fashionable, or exciting
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Word Origin and History for groovy
adj.
1853 in literal sense of "pertaining to a groove," from groove (n.) + -y (2). Slang sense of "first-rate, excellent" is 1937, American English, from jazz slang phrase in the groove (1932) "performing well (without grandstanding.)" As teen slang for "wonderful," it dates from c.1941; popularized 1960s, out of currency by 1980. Related: Grooviness.
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