goob

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uːb

Noun

goob (countable and uncountable, plural goobs)

1. A nerd.
   • 2000 July/August, Graham Sheil, “The clouds”, in Quadrant, volume 44, numbers 7-8:

     She came to behind Collis and thrust both hands into his hair. "Buck her up? You goob!"

   • 2015, Sophie Hudson, Home Is Where My People Are:

     I mean, don't get me wrong: I WAS A GOOB. But I had plenty of equally goob-y friends, and I'm convinced that this is an oft-overlooked Key to Life: find other people who operate at your same level of nerdiness, and proceed with the rocking on.

   • 2019 November 3, Tari Stage-Harvey, “Poofy '80s hair and band class: Learning the practice of prayer”, in Juneau Empire:

     I hereby apologize to my parents for being such a goob about practicing, my continual competition with some guy with poofy '80s hair for last chair, and my attempt to make it an entire year without playing a note.

   • 2019 November 5, Bobby Pepper, “Citizens of the Year 'proud to be from Saltillo'”, in Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal:

     “As a judge friend of mine says, I'm a research goob,” she said. “It's like putting a puzzle together.

2. A temporary work group formed from extended family members and neighbors and which lasts for the duration of the project.
   • 1989, Virginia De Lancey, “Rural Credit in an Islamic African Country: Somalia”, in SEMINAR ON INFORMAL FINANCIAL MARKETS IN DEVELOPMENT:

     Small-scale farmers relied more upon the use of family members and traditional work groups, especially the goob (28 percent) and also the barbaar (82 percent), both of which are described in greater detail below.

   • 2016, Hilah Segal-Klein, ““Rendillelane”: Spatial Views from the Periphery of Kenya”, in Kenya After 50. African Histories and Modernities:

     I then move to show how the Rendille divide space inside the min (houses), goob (family compound), towns, and foor (satellite camps).

   • 2019, Dale W Adams, Robert E. Hunter, Informal Finance In Low-income Countries:

     Members of the goob are usually fed a meal of the local staple, for example soor (porridge) and milk, on the days they work.

3. Methcanthinone.

Anagrams

• BOGO, Bogo, boog, gobo