goopy
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ɡuːpi/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -uːpi
Adjective
[edit]goopy (comparative goopier, superlative goopiest) (informal)
- Having the consistency of goop.
- The flask had something goopy in it.
- 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 361:
- A hard November wind is spattering goopy sleet against the broad windows all around the hall.
- Saccharine; sentimental.
- 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 353:
- […] 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, […]
- 2007 June 17, Jennifer Egan, “Woman Warriors”, in New York Times[1]:
- “She’d had some goopy notion of self-sacrifice, or maybe it was self-punishment, of making amends.”