Meaning

(chiefly Southern US) A peanut..

Definitions by Sense

1. (chiefly Southern US) A peanut.
2. (chiefly Southern US, dated slang) A Georgian or North Carolinian, particularly one from the pine forests of the Sandhills region.
3. (chiefly US, childish slang, Internet slang) A foolish, simple, or amusingly silly person.
4. (US, slang) A quantity of sputum.
5. (slang, intransitive) To drool or dribble.
6. (slang, transitive) To drip or slather; to apply a gooey substance to a surface.

Example Sentences

A few bags Gouber Pea, or Ground Pea

But he so seam I frade of he, I guess he steal my goober.

Conscripts by the dozen... Come pouring in the Castle... Some from Mississippi state and “Goobers” from Tar river.

The peanuts or earth-nuts known in North Carolina and the adjoining States as Goober peas, so that during the late Civil War a conscript from the so-called ‘piney woods’ of that State was apt to be nick-named a Goober.

For Ralph, any encouragement is too much. When Lisa gives Ralph a valentine bearing that locomotive pun that so affected The Simpsons’ showrunner, Ralph misinterprets the gesture as a genuine display of romantic interest rather than a gesture of pity from a thoughtful young geek to a friendless goober.

[Keanu] Reeves had spent much of the decade as a celebrity goober—a great-looking guy best known for being a bland actor (at least by traditional acting standards).

[…] spat a goober into the sunbaked dust between them […]

Word Forms

• goobers
• gouber
• goobering
• goobered

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