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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread What a Goober! #133082 09/14/2004 3:14 PM Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 180 Austin, TX gift horse member gift horse member Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 180 Austin, TX Hello! Recently someone on another board called Dr. Phil a goober. I started laughing because -- I agreed and -- back when I was a mere barefoot child in the Ozark Mountains, we would occasionally refer to certain clueless individuals as goobers. The trouble is, the only definition I can find for goober in the dictionary is "peanut". Ho Hum! But I know I've heard goober used as a synonym for a specific brand of uneducated fool, dummy, nitwit, etc. many times, even since moving out of The Sticks. Has anyone else heard goober used as an insult? Or is my obscure upbringing showing again? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted What a Goober! gift horse 09/14/2004 3:14 PM Re: What a Goober! TheFallibleFiend 09/14/2004 3:17 PM Re: What a Goober! gift horse 09/14/2004 3:24 PM Re: What a Goober! clockworkchaos 09/14/2004 3:33 PM Re: What a Goober! TheFallibleFiend 09/14/2004 4:15 PM Re: What a Goober! Buffalo Shrdlu 09/14/2004 4:25 PM Re: What a Goober! gift horse 09/14/2004 4:38 PM Re: What a Goober! musick 09/14/2004 6:11 PM Re: Chopped Goober AnnaStrophic 09/15/2004 1:12 AM Re: Chopped Goober Jackie 09/15/2004 2:29 PM Partial Goober musick 09/15/2004 3:30 PM Re: Partial Goober belMarduk 09/15/2004 5:47 PM Re: Partial Goober musick 09/15/2004 5:57 PM Re: Chopped Goober gift horse 09/15/2004 9:42 PM Re: Chopped Goober Faldage 09/16/2004 10:46 AM Re: Chopped Goober gift horse 09/16/2004 2:27 PM Re: Chopped Goober Father Steve 09/16/2004 4:57 AM Pin your liver to the mantle musick 09/16/2004 5:53 PM Mickey Mantle Father Steve 09/17/2004 5:53 AM Re: Mickey Mantle Jackie 09/17/2004 1:20 PM Jeopardy (TM) Father Steve 09/17/2004 4:16 PM Re: Jeopardy (TM) of troy 09/17/2004 7:44 PM Re: Jeopardy (TM) Father Steve 09/17/2004 10:36 PM Re: Jeopardy (TM) Jackie 09/18/2004 12:34 AM A Solemn Undertaking Father Steve 09/18/2004 1:00 AM Re: What a Goober! gift horse 09/18/2004 2:24 PM Mayberry, RFD Father Steve 09/14/2004 6:58 PM Re: Mayberry, RFD tsuwm 09/14/2004 7:16 PM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,915 Posts230,305 Members9,209 Most Online4,606 Sep 17th, 2025 Newest Members Peripatetic Toad, JerryC, blvd, Tony Hood, Wood Delivery 9,209 Registered Users Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 25 A C Bowden 11 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 11,153 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,974 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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