a bad-mannered or inconsiderate person; clod; boor.
Origin: expressive coinage, apparently first used by Gelett Burgess in his book Goops and How to Be Them (1900)
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Goopis always a great word to know.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
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.
n. slop; gunk; bad food. : You get used to this goup after a while.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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