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goofy goober

goofy goober noun: a foolish or amusingly silly person; a goofball; a goober.

Noun

goofy goober (plural goofy goobers)

  1. (US, informal, slang) A foolish or amusingly silly person; a goofball; a goober.
    • SpongeBob and Patrick were both wearing their favorite headgear: peanut-shaped Goofy Goober hats! "I'm a Goofy Goober, yeah!" sang SpongeBob. Patrick sang back, "You're a Goofy Goober, yeah!" Then they put their heads together. "We're all Goofy Goobers, yeah! Goofy, Goofy, Goober, Goober, yeah!"2004 September, Marc Cerasini, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (Novelisation), Simon and Schuster, Nickelodeon, →ISBN, page 13
    • My father is a classically trained Shakespearean actor. Yes, he's most famous for starring in The Addams Family and Night Court, for doing the Killer Tomato movies, for being this goofy goober of a guy. And he's good at that sort of thing. But he's a serious man who has given extraordinary and...2004 October, Sean Astin, Joe Layden, There and Back Again: An Actor's Tale, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, unnumbered page

Examples of goofy goober in a sentence

  • Yes, he's most famous for starring in The Addams Family and Night Court, for doing the Killer Tomato movies, for being this goofy goober of a guy.2004 October, Sean Astin, Joe Layden, There and Back Again: An Actor's Tale, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, unnumbered page:
  • Perry's a goofy goober, but we love him anyway.2017, George Jones, Hearts and Pistols (Paranoria, TX - The Radio Scripts), volume 8, Jericho Co. Productions, →ISBN, pages 168–69:
  • Y'all two remember the drunk goofy goober who came here to start some shit 'bout a week ago?2019 October, Jani Ojala, Oulunsalo Fiction: The Complete Trilogy, Books on Demand, →ISBN, page 436:

Forms of goofy goober

pluralgoofy goobers

Origin of goofy goober

Alliterative compound of goofy + goober (“a peanut”). Coined and popularised by the American television series and media franchise SpongeBob SquarePants, particularly the 2004 film The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, in which the noun is ostensibly derived from Goofy Goober, the peanut mascot of the eponymous fictional ice cream parlor. Goober, which is also slang for a foolish or amusingly silly person, is thus a pun.

Questions about goofy goober

What does goofy goober mean?
Goofy goober means a foolish or amusingly silly person; a goofball; a goober.
How do you use goofy goober in a sentence?
Yes, he's most famous for starring in The Addams Family and Night Court, for doing the Killer Tomato movies, for being this goofy goober of a guy.
What part of speech is goofy goober?
Goofy goober is a noun.
What is the plural of goofy goober?
The plural of goofy goober is goofy goobers.

Words near goofy goober in the dictionary

  1. goofus
  2. goofus bird
  3. goofus birds
  4. goofuses
  5. goofy
  6. goofy goober
  7. goofy goobers
  8. goofy juice
  9. goofy-foot
  10. goog
  11. googa

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