Goo

/ɡuː/ · noun

Meaning

(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..

Definitions by Sense

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.
2. (figuratively) Excessive, showy sentimentality.
3. (transitive) To apply goo to something.
4. A noise made by a baby trying to imitate speech.
5. (intransitive) To produce baby talk.
6. Elongated form of go.
7. (Northern England, West Midlands, Scotland) Pronunciation spelling of go.

Example Sentences

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

[…] 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.

They gooed their hair with some fragrant styling product.

The infant's goos and gahs were endearing.

The baby gooed while daddy made sappy faces at it.

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.

The baby gooed. Danny smiled.

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.

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Word Forms

• goos
• gooing
• gooed

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