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# gooey

«gooey» in Mova's school dictionary: **Soft, sticky and wet: gooey chocolate cake** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (gooey, gooier, gooiest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Soft, sticky and wet: gooey chocolate cake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gooey/#m1)

2) (informal) Too sweet and sentimental, full of soppy feelings: a gooey love song. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gooey/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In cooking and everyday life «gooey» is a happy word for melted cheese, brownies and marshmallows. In science it describes sticky substances like slime and glue. In stories it can describe something icky, or soppy romantic moments. Phrases: gooey brownies, gooey slime, go all gooey.

### examples

- The brownies were warm and gooey in the middle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gooey/#x1)
- My hands got gooey making slime. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gooey/#x2)
- The pizza had gooey melted cheese. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gooey/#x3)
- Gran went all gooey when she saw the puppy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gooey/#x4)
- Toasted marshmallows are gooey inside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gooey/#x5)
- The film was too gooey for my brother. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gooey/#x6)

### note

Comparative: gooier, gooiest (y → i). From «goo», a sticky substance. Similar: sticky, squishy. «Go all gooey» (informal) means to become soft and emotional.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «gooey» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gooey/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.