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goo [goo] ExamplesWord Origin noun Informal.

  1. a thick or sticky substance: Wash that goo off your hands.
  2. maudlin sentimentality.

Origin of goo 1910–15, Americanism; perhaps short for burgoo Related Words for goos muck, sludge, gunk, slush, crud, ooze, guck, gook, glop, yuck Examples from the Web for goos Historical Examples of goos

  • Lydgate copies this line in his Hors, Shepe, and Goos, l. 155.

    Chaucer’s Works, Volume 1 (of 7) — Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems

    Geoffrey Chaucer

  • “That fare to be my train,” I says to myself, and drinks my beer as quick as I can and goos acrost to the station again.

    A Floating Home

    Cyril Ionides

  • A babyish voice babbled merrily, but the sounds were all “goos” and “ahs” without any resemblance to words.

    Aunt Jane’s Nieces in Society

    Edith Van Dyne

  • So Gg.; rest The goos, the duk, and the cukkowe also (wrongly; see next line).

    Chaucer’s Works, Volume 1 (of 7) — Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems

    Geoffrey Chaucer

  • British Dictionary definitions for goos goo noun informal

    1. a sticky or viscous substance
    2. coy or sentimental language or ideas

    Word Origin for goo C20: of uncertain origin Word Origin and History for goos goo n.

    1903, American English, of obscure origin, probably a back-formation from gooey.

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