goo
/ɡuː/
goo noun: 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. Also the pronunciation spelling of go.
Noun (1)
goo (usually uncountable, plural goos)
- 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.
- I stepped in some goo and had a terrible time getting the sticky stuff off my shoes.
- Excessive, showy sentimentality.
- […] 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...1996, David Foster Wallace, “14 November Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment”, in Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, pages 694–695
- Synonyms:
- mawkishness, saccharinity, sugariness
Verb (1)
goo (third-person singular simple present goos, present participle gooing, simple past and past participle gooed)
- To apply goo to something.
- They gooed their hair with some fragrant styling product.
Noun (2)
goo (plural goos)
- A noise made by a baby trying to imitate speech.
- The infant's goos and gahs were endearing.
Verb (2)
goo (third-person singular simple present goos, present participle gooing, simple past and past participle gooed)
- To produce baby talk.
- 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.2010, Frances Gaddy Stegall, Rafter T Ranch, page 179
Verb (3)
goo
- Elongated form of go.
- 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.2021 August 2, Neil Davidson, “Kyle Lowry era over in Toronto as Raptors great signs with Miami Heat”, in CBC
Noun (3) capitalized: GOO
GOO (uncountable)
- Initialism of gastric outlet obstruction.
Proper noun capitalized: Goo
Goo (plural Goos)
- A surname from Korean.
Also used as
goo is also the pronunciation spelling of go.
goo meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Telugu and Malayalam
goo in Hindi
- गू, गुओ
goo in Malayalam
- ഗൂ, ഗൂവിന്, ഗൂവിലേക്ക്
More languagesFewer languages
- goo in Kannada
- ಗೂ
- goo in Punjabi
- ਗੂ, ਗੂਓ
- goo in Gujarati
- ગૂ, ગુઓ, ગૂ કરવા માટે
- goo in Odia
- ଗୋଉକୁ
- goo in Nepali
- गुओ, गू, गू गर्न
Examples of goo in a sentence
- The goo buttered out over the floor.
- Nay—heaw—so—Tummus; goo theaw an smeawtch Seroh o' Rutchot's iv yo bin so kipper.
- The resulting goo gobs up around my molars, and I decide not to swallow it.
Synonyms of goo
Forms of goo
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | goos |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | goos |
| present participle | gooing |
| past participle | gooed |
| past | gooed |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Goos |
Origin of goo
American English, attested since 1903, possibly from burgoo (“thick porridge”); alternatively, an alteration of glue.
Onomatopoeic of baby talk.
See go.
Words formed from goo
Phrases with goo
Words that rhyme with goo
Questions about goo
- What does goo mean?
- Goo means 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.
- What is goo in Hindi?
- Goo in Hindi is गू, गुओ. See Goo meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is goo?
- Goo can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce goo?
- Goo is pronounced /ɡuː/.
- What is the plural of goo?
- The plural of goo is goos.
Words near goo in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: goo (page history and authors); GOO (page history and authors); Goo (page history and authors); goo (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); goo (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); goo (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); goo (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); goo (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); goo (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); goo (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); goo (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); goo (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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