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ooshy-gooshy

ooshy-gooshy adjective: cloyingly sentimental.

Adjective

ooshy-gooshy (comparative more ooshy-gooshy, superlative most ooshy-gooshy)

  1. (informal) cloyingly sentimental
    • Loving your brother doesn't mean that you have to feel ooshy-gooshy about him. It doesn't even really mean that you have to like him a lot. But it does mean that you need to choose to show him respect and to look out for his best interests […]2001, Katie E. Gieser, Paige Drygas, Christopher Hudson, Extreme Answers to Extreme Questions, page 120
    • They fell head over heels in love and enjoyed the ooshy-gooshy stage of their relationship as long as it would last.2006, Ben Young, Samuel Adams, Out of Control, page 64

Forms of ooshy-gooshy

comparativemore ooshy-gooshy
superlativemost ooshy-gooshy

Questions about ooshy-gooshy

What does ooshy-gooshy mean?
Ooshy-gooshy means cloyingly sentimental.
What part of speech is ooshy-gooshy?
Ooshy-gooshy is an adjective.

Words near ooshy-gooshy in the dictionary

  1. ooser
  2. oosers
  3. ooses
  4. OOSH
  5. OOSHes
  6. ooshy-gooshy
  7. oosik
  8. oosiks
  9. oosing
  10. Oosman
  11. oosome

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