OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 23089

goo

/ɡuː/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
ajonje • ajonjo • baba • ligamaza • liria • moco • mucosidad • pez • vesque • visco
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.
cursilería • huachafería
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…
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