单词 | goo |
释义 | goon. slang (originally U.S.). A viscid or sticky substance. Also figurative, sickly sentiment, gush. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > viscosity > [noun] > viscous substance paste1390 gummosityc1400 gleimc1440 glaira1529 viscosity1540 plaster1588 emplastic1597 batter1601 starcha1627 mucilage1639 viscus1643 grume1718 syrup1838 sticky1851 goo1903 gloop1927 goop1930 glop1945 ick1947 gunge1969 the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > sentimentality > [noun] sentiment1747 sentimentality1770 mawkishness1796 sensiblerie1815 sentimentalism1818 sloppiness1828 morbidezza1833 milk-and-wateriness1834 maudlin1838 soothing syrup1839 emotionalism1846 stickiness1864 slop1866 mushiness1868 saccharinity1868 sympatheticism1884 hearts and flowers1911 lovey-doveyness1923 schmaltz1934 goop1950 goo1951 schmaltziness1953 gloop1957 cheesiness1963 soupiness1963 soft-centredness1967 soppiness1974 1903 C. H. Sewall Wireless Telegr. iv. 156 The ends of the wires..are smeared..with a minute quantity of a paste which the inventor [sc. L. DeForest] has named ‘goo’. 1911 E. Ferber Dawn O'Hara iii. 31 You mean to tell me that you woke me..to make me drink that goo?.. I'll bet it's another egg-nogg. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xii. [Cyclops] 297 Bloom putting in his old goo. 1944 J. H. Fullarton Troop Target 43 It's all over blood and goo. 1949 S. Gibbons Matchmaker xiv. 163 He..began to measure and mince vegetable scraps and scoop out grey, gritty, oily goo from a large tin. 1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 29/2 A crude morality which puts the best-seller goo to shame. 1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Mar. 156/3 He writes about subjects which, in less skilled hands, have so often and so embarrassingly degenerated into a mess of gush and goo. 1959 Punch 17 June 815/1 Lonely-hearts..angered me very much by finally dissolving in a bath of sweet goo after being an excellent film for three-quarters of its length. 1960 News Chron. 16 Feb. 6/6 Barbara goes into the dressing-room to slap on the old goo. 1969 Daily Tel. 14 Mar. (Colour Suppl.) 50/3 Crêpes Suzette..precooked in the kitchen and reheated in the buttery goo. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022). goov. intransitive. To make an inarticulate cooing or gurgling noise such as that made by babies and small children; also (colloquial), to converse with a sweetheart in this way, to canoodle. Cf. coo v. 2, 3. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > action of caressing > caress or make a show of affection [verb (intransitive)] ingle1599 bill1609 smug1813 canoodle1864 mush1919 goo1941 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > other vocal sounds > [verb (intransitive)] > make gooing noise goo1941 1941 J. Smiley Hash House Lingo 29 Gooing, necking. 1953 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang (1954) §353/1 Gooing, talking affectionately. 1960 J. Wain Nuncle 5 There's always the kid..toddling about, alternately gooing and howling. 1986 M. Forster Private Papers 56 Every time I saw Emily being gooed over, I wished I was her. 1989 Advertising Age 17 Apr. 86/3 It opens in a nursery, where an infant is gooing and gaahing in his crib. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1903v.1941 |
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