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gooley

gooley is the alternative spelling of gooly.

Meaning of gooly

Noun

gooly (plural goolies)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) A pebble, a small rock.

Proper noun capitalized: Gooley

Gooley (plural Gooleys)

  1. A surname.

Forms of gooley

Noun
pluralgooleys
Proper noun
pluralGooleys

Origin of gooley

Two main origins: * An Americanized spelling of French Goulet. * A reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Gabhlaigh (“descendant of Gabhlach”), a byname from gabhlach (“forked; branching”).

Questions about gooley

What does gooley mean?
Gooley means a surname.
What is gooley the alternative spelling of?
Gooley is the alternative spelling of gooly.
What part of speech is gooley?
Gooley is a proper noun.

Words near gooley in the dictionary

  1. goolars
  2. Goold
  3. Goold's Cross
  4. Goolds
  5. Goole
  6. gooley
  7. gooleys
  8. Goolgowi
  9. Goolhi
  10. goolie
  11. goolie chit

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: gooley (page history and authors); Gooley (page history and authors); gooly (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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