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Silly character
Answer for the clue "Silly character ", 5 letters:
goofy
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Word definitions for goofy in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
goofy \goofy\ adj. foolish and silly, or appearing silly; as, he wore a goofy hat. Syn: cockamamie, cockamamy, fool(prenominal), sappy, silly, wacky, zany, unreasonable.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1921, from goof + -y (2). The Disney character of that name began life c.1929 as Dippy Dawg.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES goofy footed EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ I look goofy in that picture. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ I learned he had the same goofy sense of humor I was cursed with. ▪ Now Fox carries the All-Star Game, complete with ...
Usage examples of goofy.
Stuff in development, goofy prototypes which mostly never got any further than test rigs, were briar patches of dropped lines, strange attractors, bad loops, geeky quick fixes and worse.
John Saxon was going really goofy, like Ed Gein goofy, and he went across Florida Boulevard and was found digging into a fresh grave.
The bespeckled, pimply-faced, overweight, underweight, dateless, womanless, goofiest of the goofy, were the undisputed, unchallenged kings of the entire freaking Valley!
As I pried my eyelids open, trying to recompose myself, I saw my friends sitting quite still, looking at me with goofy smiles.
I told Brakeman it was too goofy an ambush to work, but he swore by it.
His chest was hairless, massive, signified by what must have been at least a hundred tattoos of identical cartoonish red ants with goofy popped eyes and oversized feelers.
What the hell do you know about being trapped inside a paradigm of goofy custom and pagan practices by nominal Christians who work themselves into a goony commercial frenzy each year in the hope of goosing their pathetic economies so they can buy fancy coffins for themselves when they croak.
Boomer and Zif hope that both Arabs and Jews can look at this creature, all goofy and vulgar, and maybe find some humor in their own folly.
And so all the rituals of traditional male bonding and rivalry -- locker room pranks, pissing contests, comparisons of penis size -- get turned into something goofier and finer.
Looking at them sitting there on the car, acting goofy, it was easy to forget how hard they could be, how quickly the switchblades could slip down out of their sleeves and appear in their hands.
Goofy, Pluto and the other construction supervisors are yukking it up today.
You know, where you can cram in with your pals and take goofy shots, then mug them up on a comp. We don't have an X license, so it's got to be clean.
It may be as cockeyed as Trenco’s ether – you’re to be the sole judge of that-but you’ll know I mean well, no matter how goofy it is.
He was a big German shepherd, the alpha dog in Moth's pack, ninety pounds of goofy good humor that could turn instantly serious on a word from Moth.
The fat little guy was always in your face, always dancing up to you bigger than life, in academic seminars or private supervisory sessions always rising up onto his tippy-toes like a bingeing ballerina to present some goofy Freudian stuff in the voice and gesture of a Borscht Belt comic, self-mocking in the extreme.