goober
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
goober (plural goobers)
- (chiefly Southern US) Synonym of peanut#English|peanut.
- 1833 November 7, Louisville Public Advertiser:
- A few bags Gouber Pea, or Ground Pea
- 1834 May 24, Cherokee Phoenix, p. 3:
- But he so seam I frade of he, I guess he steal my goober.
- 1833 November 7, Louisville Public Advertiser:
- (chiefly Southern US, dated slang) Synonym of Georgian#English|Georgian or North Carolinian, particularly those from the pine forests of the Sandhills region.
- 1863, Anonymous, "Castle Thunder" in Louis Napoléon Boudrye's [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=aeu.ark:/13960/t0vq3j842;view=1up;seq=8 Historic Records of the Fifth New York Cavalry...], Appendix, [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=aeu.ark:/13960/t0vq3j842;view=1up;seq=368;size=150 p. 339:]
- Conscripts by the dozen...
Come pouring in the Castle...
Some from Mississippi state and “Goobers” from Tar river.
- Conscripts by the dozen...
- 1871, Maximilian Schele de Vere, Americanisms, p. 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.
- 1863, Anonymous, "Castle Thunder" in Louis Napoléon Boudrye's [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=aeu.ark:/13960/t0vq3j842;view=1up;seq=8 Historic Records of the Fifth New York Cavalry...], Appendix, [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=aeu.ark:/13960/t0vq3j842;view=1up;seq=368;size=150 p. 339:]
- (chiefly US, childish slang) A foolish, simple, or amusingly silly person.
- 2012 August 5, Nathan Rabin, [http://www.avclub.com/articles/i-love-lisa,83183/ "The Simpsons (Classic): 'I Love Lisa'"], A.V. Club ↗:
- 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.
- 2012 August 5, Nathan Rabin, [http://www.avclub.com/articles/i-love-lisa,83183/ "The Simpsons (Classic): 'I Love Lisa'"], A.V. Club ↗:
- (fool) See Thesaurus:fool, Thesaurus:idiot, Thesaurus:ignoramus, and Thesaurus:mentally deficient person
goober (goobers, present participle goobering; past and past participle goobered)
- (slang, intransitive) To drool or dribble.
- (slang, transitive) To drip or slather; to apply a gooey substance to a surface.
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