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goo

See also: Goo, GOO, góo, go'o, goo', -góó, and ꞊göö˗

English

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɡuː/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -uː

Etymology 1

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American English, attested since 1903, possibly from burgoo (“thick porridge”); alternatively, an alteration of glue.

Noun

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goo (usually uncountable, plural goos)

  1. (uncountable, informal) Any semi-solid or liquid substance; especially one that is sticky, gummy or slippery, unpleasant, and of vague or unknown composition, such as slime or semen.
    Synonyms: gloop, goop, gunge, gunk; see also Thesaurus:goo
    I stepped in some goo and had a terrible time getting the sticky stuff off my shoes.
  2. (figuratively) Excessive, showy sentimentality.
    Synonyms: mawkishness, saccharinity, sugariness
    • 1996, David Foster Wallace, “14 November Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment”, in Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, pages 694–695:
      […] To be really human is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naive and goo-prone and generally pathetic, is to be in some basic interior way forever infantile, some sort of not-quite-right-looking infant dragging itself anaclitically around the map, with big wet eyes and froggy-soft skin, huge skull, gooey drool.
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Verb

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goo (third-person singular simple present goos, present participle gooing, simple past and past participle gooed)

  1. (transitive) To apply goo to something.
    They gooed their hair with some fragrant styling product.

Etymology 2

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Onomatopoeic of baby talk.

Noun

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goo (plural goos)

  1. A noise made by a baby trying to imitate speech.
    The infant's goos and gahs were endearing.

Verb

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goo (third-person singular simple present goos, present participle gooing, simple past and past participle gooed)

  1. (intransitive) To produce baby talk.
    The baby gooed while daddy made sappy faces at it.
    • 2010, Frances Gaddy Stegall, Rafter T Ranch, page 179:
      The baby gooed but didn't let go; instead he decided he would taste it. Lou quickly tried to get the baby to release his trophy but to no avail.
    • 2013, Susan Meier, A Father for Her Triplets: Her Pregnancy Surprise, page 359:
      The baby gooed. Danny smiled.

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Etymology 3

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See go.

Verb

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goo

  1. Elongated form of go.
    • 2021 August 2, Neil Davidson, “Kyle Lowry era over in Toronto as Raptors great signs with Miami Heat”, in CBC‎[1]:
      Lowry put out a social media post to his more than 907,000 Twitter followers saying, "Miami Heat X Kyle Lowry" and "Let's Goo!!" followed by five fire emojis.
  2. (Northern England, Scotland) Pronunciation spelling of go.
    • 1886, Benjamin Brierley, Cast Upon the World - The Story of a Waif, Heywood, →ISBN, page 218:
      Well, then, things are settled, an' I'll goo an' finish yond pigs off," said my new employer, rising from his chair, and flapping his crush hat upon his head as if he was killing flies.

References

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  • Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “goo”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
  • Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

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Anagrams

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Dutch

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Noun

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goo f (plural gooën)

  1. Alternative form of gouw

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Esperanto

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Esperanto Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia eo

Etymology

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From Japanese 碁 (go).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈɡoo]
  • Rhymes: -oo
  • Hyphenation: go‧o

Noun

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goo (accusative singular goon, plural gooj, accusative plural goojn)

  1. go (board game)
    Synonym: vejĉio

Manx

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Etymology 1

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From Old Irish guth, from Proto-Celtic *gutus, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰuHtus, from *ǵʰewH- (“to call on, invoke”).

Noun

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goo m (genitive singular goo, plural googhyn)

  1. voice
  2. word, reputation

Etymology 2

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Noun

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goo

  1. Eclipsed form of coo.

Mutation

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Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
goo ghoo ngoo
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Middle English

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Verb

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goo

  1. Alternative form of gon (“to go”)

References

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p. 1, Arthur; A Short Sketch of his Life and History in English Verse of the First Half of the Fifteenth Century, Frederick Furnivall ed. EETS. Trübner & Co.: London. 1864.

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