/ˈɡuːi/, /ˈɡui/
- informalHaving the consistency of goo: soft or viscous, and sticky.
“gooey liquid covered the floor”
“The cookies, soft and gooey, proved a smash hit at the party.”
“[O]ysters, ice-cream, and plenty of chocolates with that goo-ey, slithery stuff in the middle. Makes you sick to think of it, eh?”
- figuratively, informalEmotional or sentimental, especially to an excessive extent; mushy, soppy.
“What flower has been bred in more than three thousand varieties, and become the symbol of the gooeyest human sentimentality and pampering?”
“Nobody goes all gooey over a character like me and talks about having half a million dollars and offers me a trip to Rio and a nice home complete with all the luxuries.”
“And that cat turns my stomach. I thought you said Spaniards weren't gooey—I've never seen anybody gooeyer than she is about that thing.”
- archaic, figuratively, informalDistasteful, unpleasant.
“Mr. Hugh Dillman's Palm Beach divorce suit will be gooey, Three of his golf-playing ???? will be mentioned …”
- informalA thing which is soft or viscous, and sticky.
“On impulse, Pat stopped at a bakery. […] He came out with a box full of gooies—éclairs, cream horns, Napoleons— […] and we parked outside the college grounds and ate them, yapping at each other and sm”
“I put the "gooeys," green fluorescent snots, into Louie's nose, set up his brain, and get ready to play the game with my mom. We keep putting our fingers up Louie's nose and pulling gooeys out of it.”
- US, figuratively, informalA person who favours closer relationships with other people and less structured settings, rather than formal, organized settings; also, an educational approach, curriculum, etc., which is less structured.
“Planned variation was based on systematically applying different educational approaches developed by academic experts, each of whom was to become a "sponsor" of a single type of program – from highly ”
“Alan Watts says that these two types may be named the "prickly" people and the "gooey" people. The pricklies, he says, the Marthas, are tough-minded, rigorous, and precise and like to stress differenc”
“Which is superior: what is known as low-structure teaching (education through experience) or high-structure instruction (stress on drill in the basics)? Many low-structure advocates, sometimes describ”
Formsgooeyer(comparative) · gooier(comparative) · gooeyest(superlative) · gooiest(superlative) · gooeys(plural) · gooies(plural)