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▪ I. goo slang (orig. U.S.).|guː|
[Of obscure origin but possibly a shortening of burgoo.]
A viscid or sticky substance. Also fig., sickly sentiment, gush.
1903C. H. Sewall Wireless Telegr. iv. 156 The ends of the wires..are smeared..with a minute quantity of a paste which the inventor [sc. L. DeForest] has named ‘goo’. 1911E. Ferber Dawn O'Hara iii. 31 You mean to tell me that you woke me..to make me drink that goo?.. I'll bet it's another egg-nogg. 1922Joyce Ulysses 305 Bloom putting in his old goo. 1944J. H. Fullarton Troop Target 43 It's all over blood and goo. 1949S. Gibbons Matchmaker xiv. 163 He..began to measure and mince vegetable scraps and scoop out grey, gritty, oily goo from a large tin. 1951M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 29/2 A crude morality which puts the best-seller goo to shame. 1959Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Mar. 156/3 He writes about subjects which, in less skilled hands, have so often and so embarrassingly degenerated into a mess of gush and goo. 1959Punch 17 June 815/1 Lonely-hearts..angered me very much by finally dissolving in a bath of sweet goo after being an excellent film for three-quarters of its length. 1960News Chron. 16 Feb. 6/6 Barbara goes into the dressing-room to slap on the old goo. 1969Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 14 Mar. 50/3 Crêpes Suzette..precooked in the kitchen and reheated in the buttery goo.
▪ II. goo
Sc. variant of gout.
▪ III. goo, v.|guː|
[Onomatopoeic: cf. earlier goo-goo int.]
intr. To make an inarticulate cooing or gurgling noise such as that made by babies and small children; also (colloq.), to converse with a sweetheart in this way, to canoodle. Cf. coo v. 2, 3.
1941J. Smiley Hash House Lingo 29 Gooing, necking. 1953Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang (1954) §353/1 Gooing, talking affectionately. 1960J. Wain Nuncle 5 There's always the kid..toddling about, alternately gooing and howling. 1986M. Forster Private Papers 56 Every time I saw Emily being gooed over, I wished I was her. 1989Advertising Age 17 Apr. 86/3 It opens in a nursery, where an infant is gooing and gaahing in his crib. |