gloopyadj.

1929 Motion Picture Apr. 48/2 Sitting hunched over, his hands clasped between his knees and smeared with all that brown stuff, he [sc. Gary Cooper] was rather a sad spectacle, I decided. And yet—yet—under all the gloopy paint—there was—something—charm—.

1956 Daily Rec. (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 3 Feb. 6/1 Saddest sight was the poor father whose young son had just dropped his whole allowance, in coins, in the gutter. That was some gloopy, freezing, melting, blackened mess he had to go scooping into with his bare hands.

1971 N.Y. Times 8 Oct. 48/8 Lobster and crabmeat newburg..came in a rather dull and gloopy yellow sauce.

2000 C. Calman in J. Adams et al. Girls' Night In 341 She put some sort of gloopy stuff on her hands and scrunched it through my hair.

1965 Progress (Clearfield, Pa.) 19 June 4/1 In a gloopy story about what to get Dad for ‘his’ day it was noted that for the first time in history fathers were adopting their styles from those of the youngsters.

1987 Guardian 6 Feb. 15/3 Vandross sings too many gloopy ballads, and the pace of the set flagged in consequence.

1998 Vibe Nov. 165 Is electronic music turning into the underground equivalent of New Age music? It certainly looks that way, what with all these young Brits going soft in the head with gloopy string arrangements.

2009 Independent 30 Sept. 21/1 The doyenne of gloopy romantic fiction..has been manufacturing bestsellers at the rate of two a year for three decades.