gooier; gooiest
1
informal
: soft, wet, and sticky
a gooey mess
With its warm, gooey goodness, this dessert will bring bananas Foster to mind.—
Lillian Chou
Lillian ChouResearchers in Japan have extracted a new, gooey, and potentially useful protein from the bodies of jellyfish.—S. Webb
S. WebbThe order might also include poutine, the gooey mass of French fries smothered in gravy and melted cheese curds that is now beginning to win fans and clog arteries outside Quebec.—Charles Boberg
Charles Boberg2
informal
: excessively sweet or sentimental : cloying
gooey sentimentality
a gooey romance
Compared with the hardscrabble mountain and mill-town tale of the father, the soft-edged suburban narrative of the stepson and Bragg's relationship with him feels gooey and romanticized.—Christopher Dickey
Christopher Dickey
gooeyness
noun
informal
Ads for food in all of its present-day forms abound in glorious color—from the crackle and crunch of fast-food fried chicken to the gooeyness of a pizza's cheese …
—Judith Crist
Judith Crist
I rejoice in a children's film that avoids gooeyness …
—Richard Alleva
Richard Alleva
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Examples of gooey in a Sentence
things get especially gooey during the scene in which the lovers are reunited at long last
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Now, you’re left with a heaping, gooey pile of guts and seeds.
—Cody Godwin, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2024
Some research shows that dimethicone, a gooey polymer that basically suffocates lice, remains effective.
—Anna North, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Taffy, or Pull ‘n’ Snap This concentrate is very close to shatter, but may be gooier or stickier due to the manufacturing process.
—Rowan Briggs, The Mercury News, 11 Oct. 2024
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Symiah Dorsey, Southern Living, 25 Oct. 2024
Now, you’re left with a heaping, gooey pile of guts and seeds.
—Cody Godwin, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2024
Some research shows that dimethicone, a gooey polymer that basically suffocates lice, remains effective.
—Anna North, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Taffy, or Pull ‘n’ Snap This concentrate is very close to shatter, but may be gooier or stickier due to the manufacturing process.
—Rowan Briggs, The Mercury News, 11 Oct. 2024
See all Example Sentences for gooey
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“Gooey.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gooey. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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