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  • 1.1 Alternative forms
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  • 1.5 Verb
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English

[edit] WOTD – 23 July 2007

English Wikipedia has an article on:gooberWikipedia

Alternative forms

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• gouber

Etymology

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Via Gullah from Kongo nguba (“peanut”).

Pronunciation

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɡuːbə/
• (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡubɚ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -uːbə(ɹ)

Noun

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goober (plural goobers)

1. (chiefly Southern US) A peanut.
   • 1833 November 7, Louisville Public Advertiser:A few bags Gouber Pea, or Ground Pea
   • 1834 May 24, Cherokee Phoenix, page 3:But he so seam I frade of he, I guess he steal my goober.
2. (chiefly Southern US, dated slang) A Georgian or North Carolinian, particularly one from the pine forests of the Sandhills region.
   • 1863, anonymous author, “Castle Thunder”, in Louis Napoléon Boudrye, editor, Historic Records of the Fifth New York Cavalry...‎[1], Appendix, page 339:Conscripts by the dozen...Come pouring in the Castle...Some from Mississippi state and “Goobers” from Tar river.
   • 1871, Maximilian Schele de Vere, Americanisms, page 57:The peanuts or earth-nuts known in North Carolina and the adjoining States as Goober peas, so that during the late Civil War a conscript from the so-called ‘piney woods’ of that State was apt to be nick-named a Goober.
3. (chiefly US, childish slang, Internet slang) A foolish, simple, or amusingly silly person. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fool, Thesaurus:idiot, Thesaurus:ignoramus
   • 2012 August 5, Nathan Rabin, “The Simpsons (Classic): 'I Love Lisa'”, in A.V. Club‎[2]:For Ralph, any encouragement is too much. When Lisa gives Ralph a valentine bearing that locomotive pun that so affected The Simpsons’ showrunner, Ralph misinterprets the gesture as a genuine display of romantic interest rather than a gesture of pity from a thoughtful young geek to a friendless goober.
   • 2022, Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties, New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN:[Keanu] Reeves had spent much of the decade as a celebrity goober—a great-looking guy best known for being a bland actor (at least by traditional acting standards).

Derived terms

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• goober bean
• goober-grabbler
• goober grabbler
• gooberish
• goober pea
• goobery
• goofy goober

Verb

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goober (third-person singular simple present goobers, present participle goobering, simple past and past participle goobered)

1. (slang, intransitive) To drool or dribble.
2. (slang, transitive) To drip or slather; to apply a gooey substance to a surface.

References

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• “goober”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “goober, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1900.

Anagrams

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• bog ore, booger

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