"amorous," 1900, perhaps connected with goggle, since the earliest reference is in goo-goo eyes. The sense of "baby-talk" is from 1863. Use in ref. to politics began 1890s, and seems to be a shortening of Good Government as a movement to clean up municipal corruption in Boston,
New York, etc. It soon was extended to mean "naive political reformer."
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
