goo
verbEtymology American English, attested since 1903, possibly from burgoo (“thick porridge”); alternatively, an alteration of glue.
1
To apply goo to something.
- They gooed their hair with some fragrant styling product.
goo
noun/ɡuː/
Etymology American English, attested since 1903, possibly from burgoo (“thick porridge”); alternatively, an alteration of glue.
1
Informal, Usually Any semi-solid or liquid substance; especially one that is sticky, gummy or slippery, unpleasant, and of vague or unknown composition, such as slime or semen.
- I stepped in some goo and had a terrible time getting the sticky stuff off my shoes.
2
Figuratively, Usually Excessive, showy sentimentality.
- […] To be really human is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naive and goo-prone and generally pathetic, is to be in some basic interior way forever infantile, some sort of not-quite-right-looking infant dragging itself anaclitically around the map, with big wet eyes and froggy-soft skin, huge skull, gooey drool.1996, David Foster Wallace, “14 November Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment”, in Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, pages 694–695: