ooshy-gooshy

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Adjective[edit]

ooshy-gooshy (comparative more ooshy-gooshy, superlative most ooshy-gooshy)

  1. (informal) cloyingly sentimental
    • 2001, Katie E. Gieser, Paige Drygas, Christopher Hudson, Extreme Answers to Extreme Questions, page 120:
      Loving your brother doesn't mean that you have to feel ooshy-gooshy about him. It doesn't even really mean that you have to like him a lot. But it does mean that you need to choose to show him respect and to look out for his best interests []
    • 2006, Ben Young, Samuel Adams, Out of Control, page 64:
      They fell head over heels in love and enjoyed the ooshy-gooshy stage of their relationship as long as it would last.