Crossword clues for goober
goober
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Peanut \Pea"nut\, n. (Bot.) The fruit of a trailing leguminous plant ( Arachis hypog[ae]a); also, the plant itself, which is widely cultivated for its fruit.
Note: The fruit is a hard pod, usually containing two or three seeds, sometimes but one, which ripen beneath the soil. Called also earthnut, groundnut, and goober.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"peanut," 1833, American English, of African origin, perhaps Bantu (compare Kikongo and Kimbundu nguba "peanut").
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context Southern US English) A peanut. 2 (context slang English) A foolish, simple, or amusingly silly person.
WordNet
n. pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms [syn: peanut, earthnut, goober pea, groundnut, monkey nut]
Wikipedia
Goober may refer to:
Food:
- Another word for a peanut
- Goober (brand), a food product combining peanut butter and fruit preserves
- Goobers, a Nestlé brand name of chocolate-coated peanut
Fictional characters:
- Goober Pyle, on the television shows The Andy Griffith Show, Mayberry R.F.D. and Hee-Haw
- Goober, a dog in the 1970s animated series Goober and the Ghost Chasers
- Goober, a gremlin in the BBC children's comedy sketch show Stupid!
- Goober, the player character in the Mac computer game GooBall
- Roland Goubert, "The Goober", a main character in the young adult novel The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
Other uses:
- A nickname of Edward E. Cox (1880-1952), US Representative from Georgia
- WGGC, an American FM radio station branded as "Goober 95.1"
- Goober (slang) - nasal mucus or dried nasal mucus
Goober is a combination of peanut butter and jelly in a single jar. It is sold in US, the UK, Canada, Singapore, and other parts of The Commonwealth and is named after a Gullah name for the peanut, which comes from the Gullah word for peanut, guber. Goober was introduced by The J.M. Smucker Company under the Smucker's brand.
Usage examples of "goober".
If Goodman found out I was cop, Goober would have been exposed at the speed of light.
He was still Goober in the chat rooms and he was in the process of opening a new website.
Arkansas has been called the Hot Water State and the Toothpick State, Georgia the Buzzard State, Goober State and Cracker State.
Jon held a picnic basket that was probably overflowing with fried chicuck, greasy goober chips, cooakes, pies, and magically cold, tangy oranglemime aid.
The train south from Arcadia stayed overnight at Punta Gorda before heading on back north, and the kind conducters let us sleep on the red-fuzz seats after brushing off the goober shells and what not.
It took nearly an hour and a half to arrive at Peanut, the goober capital of California.
She presses the finger next to her pinkie finger, she presses the pad of that finger into the inside corner of her eye and pulls it away, fast, with an eye goober stuck on it.
But all he kept telling me was boring stories about how his wife, a popular gal named Sara Lee, had left him for some monocle-wearing goober from Virginia named Mr.
As she was leaving the jail where she had visited her brother, a Five Street homegirl, Rooty-Too, was snatched-kidnapped-by other Goobers, the Hanging Hipsters, a rival group within the gang.
Two Goobers rolled down in different cars, shooting between the buildings from the avenue a hundred yards away.
How much had a box of Goobers chocolate-covered peanuts cost at their candy counter?
To them, Robertson was just another Southern-ftled Elmer Gantry bigot with a slick line of LordyJesus hoodoo who could hypnotize a couple of million American goobers into turning over their bank accounts to the savvy Scots.
I bring you home to keep you from freezing your goobers off, and I get Hobnailed for my trouble.
They saw themselves, you could see, as real grown-up devotchkas already, what with the old hip-swing when they saw your Faithful Narrator, brothers, and padded groodies and red all ploshed on their goobers.
Georgie let go of holding his goobers apart and just let him have one in the toothless rot with his ringy fist, and that made the old veck start moaning a lot then, then out comes the blood, my brothers, real beautiful.