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googie

/ˈɡuːɡi/

googie noun: an egg.

Noun

googie (plural googies)

  1. (Australia, slang) An egg.
    • On one of the Northern lines there was a lane where a certain train stopped nearly every day for an old dame who was always waiting to send some eggs into town. One day the train stopped for Granny, as usual, and she explained to the driver that owing to circumstances over which she had no control...1890 April 12, The Nepean Times, Penrith, NSW, page 9, column 2

Adjective capitalized: Googie

Googie (not comparable)

  1. Of a style of futurist modern American commercial architecture, popular from the 1950s to the early 1970s.
    • This is one of those 60s Googie-style structures—faded space-age futuristic. Young Mexicans dry the cars by hand.2005, Vince Gilligan, “Pilot”, in Breaking Bad (script)
    • Its West Coast culture was open to bucking tradition, which fed into the sudden popularity of the Googie style. With its bold and ultramodern diagonal lines, bright signs, boomerangs, and cantilevered extensions, Googie was the look of the future.2012, Jenny Jones, The Big Lebowski, Voyageur Press, →ISBN, page 69

Forms of googie

pluralgoogies

Origin of googie

From Irish and Scottish Gaelic gugaí/gogaí/gogaidh, a nursery word for an egg.

From Googie's Coffee Shop, name of a now-defunct coffee shop in West Hollywood, from the nickname of the original owner's wife.

Questions about googie

What does googie mean?
Googie means an egg.
What part of speech is googie?
Googie can be a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce googie?
Googie is pronounced /ˈɡuːɡi/.
What is the plural of googie?
The plural of googie is googies.

Words near googie in the dictionary

  1. googanism
  2. googans
  3. googas
  4. Googe
  5. Googes
  6. googie
  7. googies
  8. googillion
  9. googillions
  10. GOOGL
  11. googlability

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Adapted from Wiktionary: googie (page history and authors); Googie (page history and authors). 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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