Gooey - English meaning

adjective

Tending to form clots; sticky.

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Claggy mud

adjective

Thick and sticky

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The soil in the garden was thick, claggy clay., the claggy weather in the west will clear to leave …

adjective

Thick and sticky.

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Cloggy mud

adjective

Excessively sweet, rich, or sentimental, especially to a disgusting or sickening degree.

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A romantic, rather cloying story

verb

Disgust or sicken (someone) with an excess of sweetness, richness, or sentiment.

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A curious bitter-sweetness that cloyed her senses

adjective

Tasting or smelling too sweet and therefore unpleasant

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This is a wonderful wine - honeyed and rich without being remotely cloying., the room was filled wi…

adjective

Cute to a sentimental or mawkish extent.

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The film's cutesy shots of children playing in the streets

adjective

Artificially attractive and charming, esp. in a way suitable for a child

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The house is full of cutesy pictures of kittens.

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Weak, ineffectual, or sloppily sentimental.

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A drippy love song

adjective

Boring and without a strong character

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Where's that drippy brother of yours?

adjective

Thick or sticky

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The pies had an unpleasantly gloopy texture., add a banana to make the smoothies lovely and gloopy.

adjective

Having a sticky consistency.

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Gluey brown paste

adjective

Sticky, or covered with glue

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You'd better wash those gluey hands of yours.

adjective

Having a viscous or sticky consistency.

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A gummy discharge

noun

A small edible shark of australasian coastal waters, with rounded teeth that it uses to crush hard-shelled prey.

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But today he is singing the praises of a non-commercial creature - the humble eel, which he says ha…

adjective

Showing the gums

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The baby gave her a gummy smile., a gummy label, i adore melon gummies., gummies covered with choco…

adjective

Unpleasantly sticky.

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After a bunch of hot, humid, icky sticky days, it was pure bliss.

adjective

Unpleasant or disgusting

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Rory thinks peas are icky.

adjective

If two people in a romantic relationship are lovey-dovey, they show their love for each other in public by touching each other and saying loving things.

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Sentimental in an exaggerated or false way.

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A mawkish ode to parenthood

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Showing emotion or love in an awkward or silly way

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The film lapses into mawkish sentimentality near the end.

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Having a viscous or gelatinous consistency.

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A mucilaginous paste

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Soft and pulpy.

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Mushy vegetables

adjective

Having feelings that are too easily excited and displayed.

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We're not an overemotional family

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Having feelings that are too strong, or expressing feelings in too strong a way

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I didn't tell her because she always reacts in an over-emotional way., i remember a meeting the eve…

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Conducive to or characterized by the expression of love.

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A romantic candlelit dinner

noun

A person with romantic beliefs or attitudes.

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I am an incurable romantic

adjective

Relating to love or to an affectionate, loving relationship

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A romantic comedy/novel, i think egypt is an incredibly romantic country., she has a romantic idea …

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Excessively sweet or sentimental.

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Saccharine music

noun

Another term for saccharin.

adjective

Too pleasant or charming, with too much feeling to be believed

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Longfellow’s later poems are regarded as saccharine.

adjective

Excessively sentimental.

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Schmaltzy ballads

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Of or prompted by feelings of tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia.

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She felt a sentimental attachment to the place creep over her

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Related to feelings rather than reason

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When you ask which team will win, my sentimental favorite would have to be philadelphia., he gets s…

adjective

Often ill; in poor health.

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She was a thin, sickly child

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Weak and unhealthy

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He was a sickly child.

adjective

Careless and unsystematic; excessively casual.

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We gave away a goal through sloppy defending

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Messy or lacking care or attention

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Sloppy clothes, a sloppy administrator, sloppy weather, her grandchildren nearly smothered her with…

adjective

Very wet or liquid, often in a way that is unpleasant

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The batter was a bit sloppy so i added some more flour., she covered his face with sloppy kisses.

adjective

Wet and sticky; slushy.

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The sloshy mud

adjective

Resembling, consisting of, or covered with slush.

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Slushy snow

noun

A partially frozen drink made with crushed ice and sweet, typically fruit-flavoured syrup.

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Grape slushies

adjective

Slushy snow is partly melted.

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A slushy romantic novel

noun

A liquid dish, typically savoury and made by boiling meat, fish, or vegetables etc. in stock or water.

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A bowl of tomato soup

verb

Increase the power and efficiency of an engine or other machine.

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Souping up an engine's power can increase pollutants

noun

A liquid food made esp. by cooking vegetables and sometimes also meat or fish in water and usually served hot

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[ u ] chicken/tomato/vegetable soup

adjective

Tending or designed to stick to things on contact.

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Sticky cakes and pastries

noun

A piece of paper with an adhesive strip on one side, used for leaving messages or reminders.

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Perfect pictures of sunny days, birthday parties and proms, of boyfriends, girlfriends and parents …

adjective

Difficult to deal with or solve

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A sticky situation, a sticky issue, you had better wash your sticky fingers.

adjective

Containing much sugar.

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Energy-restoring, sugary drinks

adjective

Containing sugar

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All those sugary snacks that kids eat, it's that sugary smile of his that i can't stand!

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Having the consistency or sweetness of syrup.

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Syrupy puddings

adjective

(of glue, paint, or other substances) not fully dry and retaining a slightly sticky feel.

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The paint was still tacky

adjective

Showing poor taste and quality.

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Even in her faintly tacky costumes, she won our hearts

adjective

(of a substance) sticky

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I left a fingerprint in the tacky paint., she reads those tacky romance novels.

adjective

Resembling treacle in consistency, taste, or appearance.

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A treacly black fuel

adjective

Dark and sticky, like treacle

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He'd coated the shelves with a thick treacly varnish., the film is spoilt by a slightly treacly sen…

adjective

Excessively or affectedly quaint, pretty, or sentimental.

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Although the film's a bit twee, it's watchable

adjective

Having a glutinous or sticky consistency.

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The viscid mucus lining of the intestine

adjective

A viscid liquid is thick and sticky

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The cysts are filled with viscid fluid., lava, even at its hottest, is somewhat viscid, like treacl…

adjective

Having a thick, sticky consistency between solid and liquid; having a high viscosity.

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Viscous lava

adjective

(of a liquid) thick and sticky; not flowing easily

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Viscous oil