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goo definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: any thick, viscous matter [syn: sludge, slime, goo, goop, gook, guck, gunk, muck, ooze]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: perhaps short for burgoo Date: 1900 1. a viscid or sticky substance 2. sentimental tripe • gooey adjective • gooeyness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a sticky or slimy substance. 2 sickly sentiment. Etymology: 20th c.: perh. f. burgoo (Naut. sl.) = porridge

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

You can use goo to refer to any thick, sticky substance, for example mud or paste. (INFORMAL) ...a sticky goo of pineapple and coconut.

Moby Thesaurus

albumen, bathos, batter, bleeding heart, bonnyclabber, butter, cab, clabber, cloyingness, cornstarch, cream, curd, dope, dough, egg white, gaum, gel, gelatin, glair, glop, glue, gluten, gook, goop, gruel, gumbo, gunk, hearts-and-flowers, jam, jell, jelly, loblolly, maudlinness, mawkishness, molasses, mucilage, muck, mucus, mush, mushiness, namby-pamby, namby-pambyism, namby-pambyness, nostalgia, nostomania, oversentimentalism, oversentimentality, pap, paste, porridge, pudding, pulp, puree, putty, rob, romanticism, semifluid, semiliquid, sentiment, sentimentalism, sentimentality, size, slop, sloppiness, slush, soap opera, sob story, soup, starch, sticky mess, sweetness and light, syrup, tearjerker, treacle