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Meanings of
goo
in English
Portuguese
gosma
Catalan
llim
Spanish
légamo
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Any thick, viscous matter.
muck
slime
ooze
sludge
gunk
goop
gook
guck
Portuguese
gosma
Spanish
goo
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Language.
goo language
Related terms
language
Spanish
goo
Synonyms
Examples for "
muck
"
muck
slime
ooze
sludge
gunk
Examples for "
muck
"
1
I went from playing
muck
-
around
-
footie
to training intensely six days a week.
2
The veriest
muck
-
worm
in the market-place spat out at sight of him.
3
They are the mushroom growth of the
muck
-heap
of the new civilization.
4
The political boss is not the unscrupulous ogre that the
muck
-rakers
picture.
5
That they travel a great distance to gather a hot brown
muck
.
1
Detractors had been hurling
slime
since the moment the president took office.
2
The river has only black depths where one rots in the
slime
.
3
The river monsters along the river's marge lay dormant in the
slime
.
4
Hagfish are also known as
slime
eels, thought they are not eels.
5
In fact that
slime
ball made Wallace look like Martin Luther King.
1
Also written
ooze
,
Mrs Quirk's word is still common in rural Scotland.
2
The icy waters, the
ooze
and mud of the river seemed preferable.
3
Mr Livingstone's statements and unapologetic stances
ooze
contempt for the Jewish community.
4
Though the
ooze
was soft the bird did not sink into it.
5
My fist sank through the shell; a cold, sticky
ooze
spurted out.
1
Moreover, different hydrogenotrophic methanogens were found specifically to the different
sludge
sources.
2
Investment banks in particular look eager to scoop up the mortgage
sludge
.
3
Given the choice between toxic mud and sand, they picked the
sludge
.
4
Treated
sludge
is often stored in ponds where the water eventually evaporates.
5
But war zones are only one application for the bacteria-based
sludge
removers.
1
Overall, however, this yo-yos between bland and big mouthfuls of unpalatable
gunk
.
2
You look at this and it is just the most unappetising
gunk
.
3
The green
gunk
was pushing up near the top of the bucket.
4
The first thing he pulled out was a lump of white
gunk
.
5
Nice foliage, lovely wildlife, great poetry etc, pity about the
gunk
.
1
So fill up some paintballs with bomb-detecting
goop
and fire away, right?
2
Clarence examined the green
goop
falling in clumps and nodded his approval.
3
In the towers, the heavy bottoms would cake up into solid
goop
.
4
Aloe barbadensis A fancy name for the
goop
inside an aloe leaf.
5
She smeared the Icy Hot
goop
from her hand onto his.
1
Fury's talk of
gook
ears and land mines had brought it on.
2
It's a good thing I kind of understand the technical gobbledy-
gook
.
3
He looked at the bowl of meatball
gook
and scratched his head.
4
Your fuel filter was full of
gook
from a filthy gas tank.
5
Cornelius had just caught a whiff of
gook
Camels, those bitter NVA cigarettes.
1
And then you're stuck down inside all that
guck
,
and it's awful.
2
My palm had a huge red welt, oozing and smoking with yellow
guck
.
3
She thought of the green
guck
with a shudder.
4
I made a sound like
"
Guck
,
"
and made myself close my eyes tight.
5
Picture the cavemen, he'd say, firing away, and the tyrannosauruses all
gucked
up in the oil puddles.
A liquid or semi-liquid, viscous and sticky substance.
gloop
glop
Usage of
goo
in English
1
At least I could hear again; Gretchen's purple
goo
had worked well.
2
It had the best puzzles, the best lines, you had the
goo
.
3
But the toxic
goo
is also a hallucinogen, albeit a dangerous one.
4
Within minutes, it was nothing more than a pool of greenish
goo
.
5
Brown
goo
dribbled out of this new appendage in a constant stream.
6
VIEW Is nanotech safe, or will gray
goo
do us all in?
7
Was their entire population wiped out when David let loose the
goo
?
8
Yes, you just get pumpkin
goo
out the end of the gun.
9
But her needeth care, or her may all
goo
away in mullock.
10
In a moment of panic she realized the
goo
had lodged there.
11
He imagined Father Tom as a bundle of tubes oozing brown
goo
.
12
Anchor themselves when the missile hits, have some kind of quick-setting
goo
.
13
They rolled in the
goo
until Jerry pinned both his brother's arms.
14
He served himself moo
goo
gai pan, then handed it to Clare.
15
It was like a
goo
bomb detonated on top of the lift.
16
Tomorrow you'll be a big puddle of
goo
,
sinking into the ground.
Other examples for "goo"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
About this term
goo
Noun
Singular
Verb
Indicative · Present
Frequent collocations
brown goo
black goo
white goo
green goo
gray goo
More collocations
Translations for
goo
Portuguese
gosma
barro
lama
lodo
Catalan
llim
llot
tarquim
llaca
Spanish
légamo
goo
Goo
through the time
Goo
across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common