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googan

googan noun: an inexperienced or badly-behaved fisherman.

Noun

googan (plural googans)

  1. (derogatory) An inexperienced or badly-behaved fisherman.
    • The guy, the Googan, was scampering down the beach with his rod severely bent!2011, Paul Melnyk, Montauk Confidential, page 4
    • I'm standing there like a googan with the rain running down the back of my neck. My insides feel as hollow as those stupid empty cans, like I'm going pip! pip! pip! inside because I was so scared.2013, Rodman Philbrick, The Last Book in the Universe

Forms of googan

pluralgoogans

Words formed from googan

Questions about googan

What does googan mean?
Googan means an inexperienced or badly-behaved fisherman.
What part of speech is googan?
Googan is a noun.
What is the plural of googan?
The plural of googan is googans.

Words near googan in the dictionary

  1. goofy goobers
  2. goofy juice
  3. goofy-foot
  4. goog
  5. googa
  6. googan
  7. googanism
  8. googans
  9. googas
  10. Googe
  11. Googes

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