Dictionary

goopy en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈɡuːpi/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree English goop Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English goopy From goop + -y.

Meanings

1. (informal) Having the consistency of goop.
   • A hard November wind is spattering goopy sleet against the broad windows all around the hall. 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 361:
   • The flask had something goopy in it.
2. (informal) Saccharine; sentimental.
   • […]and how they all seem like limp smug moronic self-satisfied shit-eating pricks with their lobotomized smiles and goopy sentiment and how he wishes them all violent technicolor harm in the worst way,[…] 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 353:
   • “She’d had some goopy notion of self-sacrifice, or maybe it was self-punishment, of making amends.” 2007 June 17, Jennifer Egan, “Woman Warriors”, in New York Times:

Forms

Deriveds

goopiness · goopily