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gooey
OXFORD DICTIONARY
gooey, adj. (gooier, gooiest) sl.
1 viscous, sticky.
2 sickly, sentimental.
1 viscous, sticky.
2 sickly, sentimental.
Derivative
gooeyness n. (also gooiness).
Etymology
GOO + -Y(2)
THESAURUS
gooey
adhesive, amylaceous, bathetic, beery, clabbered, clammy, clotted, cloying, coagulated, curdled, doughy, drippy, gaumy, gelatinous, glairy, gluelike, gluey, glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, grumous, gumbo, gumbolike, gumlike, gummous, gummy, gushing, heavy, inspissated, jelled, jellied, jellylike, maudlin, mawkish, mucilaginous, mushy, namby-pamby, nostalgic, nostomanic, oversentimental, oversentimentalized, pasty, romantic, ropy, saccharine, sappy, sentimental, sentimentalized, slabby, slimy, slithery, sloppy, slushy, soft, soppy, soupy, starchy, sticky, stodgy, stringy, sugary, sweet, syrupy, tacky, tear-jerking, teary, tenacious, thick, thickened, tough, tremelloid, tremellose, unctuous, viscid, viscose, viscousROGET THESAURUS
gooey
Semiliquidity
N semiliquidity, stickiness, viscidity, viscosity, gummosity, glutinosity, mucosity, spissitude, crassitude, lentor, adhesiveness, inspissation, incrassation, thickening, jelly, mucilage, gelatin, gluten, carlock, fish glue, ichthyocol, ichthycolla, isinglass, mucus, phlegm, goo, pituite, lava, glair, starch, gluten, albumen, milk, cream, protein, treacle, gum, size, glue (tenacity), wax, beeswax, emulsion, soup, squash, mud, slush, slime, ooze, moisture, marsh, semifluid, semiliquid, tremellose, half melted, half frozen, milky, muddy, lacteal, lactean, lacteous, lactescent, lactiferous, emulsive, curdled, thick, succulent, uliginous, gelatinous, albuminous, mucilaginous, glutinous, glutenous, gelatin, mastic, amylaceous, ropy, clammy, clotted, viscid, viscous, sticky, tacky, gooey, slab, slabby, lentous, pituitous, mucid, muculent, mucous, gummy.For further exploring for "gooey" in Webster Dictionary Online