goo

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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. informal,uncountable,usually
    — I stepped in some goo and had a terrible time getting the sticky stuff off my shoes.
  2. A noise made by a baby trying to imitate speech.
    — The infant's goos and gahs were endearing.
  3. Excessive, showy sentimentality. figuratively,uncountable,usually
    — […] 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.
动词 v.
  1. To apply goo to something. transitive
    — They gooed their hair with some fragrant styling product.
  2. To produce baby talk. intransitive
    — The baby gooed while daddy made sappy faces at it.
  3. Elongated form of go.
    — Lowry put out a social media post to his more than 907,000 Twitter followers saying, "Miami Heat X Kyle Lowry" and "Let's Goo!!" followed by five fire emojis.
  4. Pronunciation spelling of go. Northern-England,Scotland,West-Midlands,alt-of,pronunciation-spelling
    — Well, then, things are settled, an' I'll goo an' finish yond pigs off," said my new employer, rising from his chair, and flapping his crush hat upon his head as if he was killing flies.

词形变化

goos plural goos present,singular,third-person gooing participle,present gooed participle,past gooed past goos plural goos present,singular,third-person gooing participle,present gooed participle,past gooed past

词汇关系

近义词
gleet gloop glop goo gook goop gunge gunk gum ick muck ooze paste slop sludge slime
上位词
liquid semisolid
衍生词
goo to you by way of the zoo girl goo goo ball gooey gooeyness goo-gob goolike grey goo guck man goo sprue goo
相关词
moo goo gai pan

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English burgoo?
Proto-Indo-European *gleyH-
Proto-Indo-European *glóh₁ytn̥
Proto-Italic *gloiten
Latin glūten
Late Latin glūs
Old French glubor.
Middle English glew
English glue?
English goo
American English, attested since 1903, possibly from burgoo (“thick porridge”); alternatively, an alteration of glue.
词源 2
Onomatopoeic of baby talk.
词源 3
See go.
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