Goo Definition

go͝o
noun
Anything sticky and viscous, as glue.
Webster's New World
Anything sticky and sweet.
Webster's New World
Sentimental drivel.
American Heritage
Excessive sentimentality.
Webster's New World
An example of baby talk.
The infant's goos and gahs were endearing.
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verb

To apply goo to something.

They gooed their hair with some fragrant styling product.
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(intransitive) To produce baby talk.
The baby gooed while daddy made sappy faces at it.
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Other Word Forms of Goo

Noun

Singular:
goo
Plural:
goos

Origin of Goo

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

    From Wiktionary

  • Perhaps short for burgoo

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Goo Sentence Examples

  • Among the towns around Cripple Creek in the same mining district is Victor, pop. (I goo) 4986, incorporated in 1894, chartered as a city in 1898.

  • These formed a single building, which was still intact goo years ago, and was used as the mosque of the then existing city of Istakhr.

  • To him we owe the exploration of the coast for about goo m.

  • In some places at present "they neuerseuertheir lambes from their dammes "; " and the poore of the peeke (high) countreye, and such other places, where, as they vse to mylke theyr ewes, they vse to wayne theyr lambes at 12 weekes olde, and to mylke their ewes flue or syxe weekes "; but that, he observes, " is greate hurte to the ewes, and wyll cause them that they wyll not take the ramme at the tyme of the yere for pouertye, but goo barreyne."

  • The choir-screen was sold to the South Kensington Museum in London for goo, this sum being devoted to the work of modern restoration.

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