goopy

English

Etymology

From goop +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡuːpi/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -uːpi

Adjective

goopy (comparative goopier, superlative goopiest) (informal)

1. 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.

2. 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.”

Derived terms

• goopily
• goopiness