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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?
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Goober means peanut, but it's also form of polite slang for "tallywacker."
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Thanks!
But....uh....what's a tallywacker?
Clueless as ever,
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definitely said goober in ky.
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What most sane people would call their "penis."
Other euphemisms: Wiener, member, organ - except goober tends to be considered a little more polite and it's usually (but not always) applied to a child's penis - a word your grandma might use, "Ow! The little man has caught his goober in his zipper!"
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never heard that, FF.  a goober is just a doofus.
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"Ow! The little man has caught his goober in his zipper!"YOUCH! Well, thank you for that image. I must say you gave me my first belly-laugh in over a week. Thank you! 
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http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/georgelindsey/********* I have heard it as slang for 'sputum'... that green-ish mucus one coughs up after a dose of expectorant.
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Jim Nabors played Gomer Pyle on the Andy Griffith Show in 1963 and 1964. He was replaced by his "cousin" Goober Pyle, played by George Lindsey, from 1965-1968. Both roles depicted hicks.
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coming full circle:
goober <> country hick <> Gomer <?> gomeral
gomeral - [Brit dialect] a half-wit; dunce, fool
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