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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. ![](/board/images/icons/wink.gif) 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, Dawn
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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. ![](/board/images/icons/tongue.gif) 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! ![](/board/images/icons/laugh.gif)
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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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