gooeys

Noun

gooey (plural gooeys or gooies)

1. (informal) A thing which is soft or viscous, and sticky.
   • On impulse, Pat stopped at a bakery. […] He came out with a box full of gooies—éclairs, cream horns, Napoleons— […] and we parked outside the college grounds and ate them, yapping at each other and smearing ourselves with chocolate and cream.1964, Kit Reed, chapter II, in At War as Children […], New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Company, →OCLC, pages 17–18
2. (dated, derogatory, figuratively, informal) A person who is regarded as weak or worthless; a fool.
   • But only a confirmed chump and irremediable ‘gooey’ comes up for a third ‘chuck.’ […] ‘Jest jollyin’ these gooeys, that’s how’, he said.1911, Edward Dyson, “Dukie M’Kenzie’s Dawnce”, in Benno and Some of the Push (Bookstall Series), Sydney, N.S.W.: N.S.W. Bookstall Company, →OCLC, page 32

   Synonyms:

   absolute zero, assbucket, asswipe, badling, blatherskite, bugger, carrion, cipher, cockstain, crumb

3. (US, figuratively, informal) A person who favours closer relationships with other people and less structured settings, rather than formal, organized settings; also, an educational approach, curriculum, etc., which is less structured.
   • Planned variation was based on systematically applying different educational approaches developed by academic experts, each of whom was to become a "sponsor" of a single type of program – from highly structured classroom models, sometimes called "pricklies," to open classrooms and more exploratory...1976 February 15, Pamela Moore, “Follow Through—Biggest Social Science Study Ever …”, in Daniel S[heldon] Greenberg, editor, Science & Government Report: The Independent Bulletin of Science Policy...

   Antonyms:

   prickly

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