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gooiness

gooiness is the alternative spelling of gooeyness.

Meaning of gooeyness

Noun

gooeyness (uncountable)

  1. The state or property of being gooey.
    • The trick to eating catheads was to get the butter on them before they got cold—then they were delicious. When, unluckily, they were allowed to get cold, they tended to a gooeyness, not unlike a wad of tired gum.1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 6, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 30

Origin of gooiness

From gooey + -ness.

Questions about gooiness

What is gooiness the alternative spelling of?
Gooiness is the alternative spelling of gooeyness.

Words near gooiness in the dictionary

  1. gooid
  2. gooier
  3. gooies
  4. gooiest
  5. gooily
  6. gooiness
  7. gooing
  8. Gooise Meren
  9. Goojar
  10. Goojarat
  11. Goojars

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: gooiness (page history and authors); gooeyness (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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