goshwow

Adjective

goshwow (comparative more goshwow, superlative most goshwow)

1. (dated, derogatory, often, slang) Of or pertaining to a juvenile overenthusiasm; naive; uncritical.
   • Pickering's latest article is, at least, readable. It doesn't do much more than say goshwow, I think this film is good (altho in a more reserved and "erudite" manner) and give alotta^([sic]) quotes, but it doesn't leave me utterly flabbergasted as did the other two.1967 Spring, Wynn Manners, “Your 5¢ Worth”, in No-Eyed Monster, number 11, page 45
   • Rog Ebert remembers: In the editorial of the new Science Fiction Age, Scott Edelman quotes from an interview he conducted (for their sister magazine, Sci-Fi Entertainment, he says) with fannish-wunderkind-turned-Pulitzer-winning-columnist Roger Ebert. Despite rumors that he shuns mention of his...1997 May 30, Andy Hooper, “Days of Fandom”, in Apparatchik, number 79
2. (dated, slang) Of or pertaining to a sense of wonder; awe inspiring; amazement causing.
   • You have been told how easy it is to write useful programs on your new $200 Goshwow personal computer. Being a good person who always brushes after every meal, you dutifully worked your way through the Basic instruction book—maybe two of them.1983 December, Stephen Kimmel, “The First Program”, in Creative Computing, volume 9, number 12, page 156
   • Yet Mondo is so enamored of the gee-whizbang neatness, the goshwow sense of wonder inspired by such technical "innovations" as virtual reality—the understandable dream of finding a universe in a grain of silicon—that I often wonder if they're not showing just a little unseemly haste to leave this...1991 Winter, D. S. Black, “Mondo Reality High”, in Processed World, number 28, page 55

   Synonyms:

   amazing