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goshwowboyoboy

goshwowboyoboy adjective: of or pertaining to a juvenile overenthusiasm; naive; uncritical.

Adjective

goshwowboyoboy (comparative more goshwowboyoboy, superlative most goshwowboyoboy)

  1. (dated, derogatory, slang) Of or pertaining to a juvenile overenthusiasm; naive; uncritical.
    • I am one of the few fans that still have a copy of Spacewarp, No. 1, Vol. 1. As a first issue it was about as sickly a mag as you could ask for, and the fellow that was editing it sounded like the ultimate in "goshwowoboyoboy" new fans. I frankly expected it to be the last issue, and didn't...1950 September, Rick Sneary, “The Editorial”, in Spacewarp, volume 7, number 6 (whole number 42), archived from the original on 22 Dec 2019, page 2
    • The names you cite are as familiar to me as they are to you, and as fondly remembered. But I also remember the crap, and the naive goshwowboyoboy attitude of fellow neo-phans. I remember it well because I suffered from it.1999 September 18, Reed Andrus, “Re: *New Online Literary Journal! (In which Pelan invokes Sturgeon's Law...)”, in rec.arts.horror.written (Usenet), message-ID <37E2E6DD.E4B68042@home.com>
    Synonyms:
    goshwow

Synonyms of goshwowboyoboy

Forms of goshwowboyoboy

comparativemore goshwowboyoboy
superlativemost goshwowboyoboy

Origin of goshwowboyoboy

Blend of gosh + wow + boy + oh boy. Derived from a caption ("Gosh! Wow! Boyohboy! The mosta and the besta!") used in the July 10, 1939 issue of Time magazine, reprinted from a letter in the August 1939 issue of science fiction pulp magazine Thrilling Wonder Stories, in an article about the first World Science Fiction Convention, aka Nycon I, held in New York in July 1939.

Questions about goshwowboyoboy

What does goshwowboyoboy mean?
Goshwowboyoboy means of or pertaining to a juvenile overenthusiasm; naive; uncritical.
What part of speech is goshwowboyoboy?
Goshwowboyoboy is an adjective.

Words near goshwowboyoboy in the dictionary

  1. Goshorns
  2. gosht
  3. Goshute
  4. Goshutes
  5. goshwow
  6. goshwowboyoboy
  7. GOSIP
  8. Gosiute
  9. Gosiutes
  10. Goskino
  11. goslarite

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