goo

• IPA^(key): /ɡuː/

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• Rhymes: -uː

American English, known since 1903, probably from burgoo (“thick porridge”) (1787), possibly an alteration of glue.

goo (uncountable)

1. (uncountable, informal) Any semi-solid or liquid substance; especially one that is sticky, gummy or slippery; frequently of vague or unknown composition, slime or a bodily fluid.

   I stepped in some goo and had a terrible time getting the sticky stuff off my shoes.

2. Excessive, showy sentimentality.

• (semi-solid or liquid substance): gloop, goop, gunk, ooze; see also Thesaurus:goo

• from goo to you by way of the zoo
• gooey
• gooeyness

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.

(onomatopoeia)

goo (plural goos)

1. An example of baby talk.

   The infant's goos and gahs were endearing.

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.

• gaga, ga-ga
• goo-goo

• “goo” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.
• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

• ogo

Germanic, of uncertain origin

goo f (plural [please provide], diminutive [please provide])

1. Alternative form of gouw

• oog

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

1. The board game go

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

goo m (genitive singular goo, plural googhyn)

1. voice
2. word, reputation

goo

1. Eclipsed form of coo.

goo

1. Alternative form of gon (“to go”)

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.