Find the word definition

Crossword clues for goofy

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
goofy
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 its goofy comet-puck.
▪ Now what do you say to a goofy question like that?
▪ On her travels she's there with a goofy grin and a different pose for every occasion.
▪ So much for the dissenting argument of some goofy liberals that requiring uniforms would be an added financial burden for the poor.
▪ You know, another of those books with unmemorable titles and a goofy front cover.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
goofy

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
goofy

1921, from goof + -y (2). The Disney character of that name began life c.1929 as Dippy Dawg.

Wiktionary
goofy

Etymology 1 a. silly, quirky Etymology 2

a. (context snowboarding English) riding with right foot forward.

WordNet
goofy
  1. adj. pungent adjectives of disesteem; "gave me a cockamamie reason for not going"; "wore a goofy hat"; "a silly idea"; "some wacky plan for selling more books" [syn: cockamamie, cockamamy, sappy, silly, wacky, whacky, zany, unreasonable]

  2. n. a cartoon character created by Walt Disney

  3. [also: goofiest, goofier]

Wikipedia
Goofy

Goofy is a funny-animal cartoon character created in 1932 at Walt Disney Productions. Goofy is a tall, anthropomorphic dog with a Southern drawl, and typically wears a turtle neck and vest, with pants, shoes, white gloves, and a tall hat originally designed as a rumpled fedora. Goofy is a close friend of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck and is one of Disney's most popular characters. He is normally characterized as extremely clumsy and dimwitted, yet this interpretation is not always definitive; occasionally Goofy is shown as intuitive, and clever, albeit in his own unique, eccentric way.

Goofy debuted in animated cartoons, starting in 1932 with Mickey's Revue as Dippy Dawg, who is older than Goofy would come to be. Later the same year, he was re-imagined as a younger dog, now called Goofy, in the short The Whoopee Party. During the 1930s he was used extensively as part of a comedy trio with Mickey and Donald. Starting in 1939, Goofy was given his own series of shorts that were popular in the 1940s and early 1950s. Two Goofy shorts were nominated for an Oscar: How to Play Football and Aquamania. He also co-starred in a short series with Donald, including Polar Trappers, where they first appeared without Mickey Mouse. Three more Goofy shorts were produced in the 1960s after which Goofy was only seen in television and comics. He returned to theatrical animation in 1983 with Mickey's Christmas Carol. His last theatrical appearance was How to Hook Up Your Home Theater in 2007. Goofy has also been featured in television, most extensively in Goof Troop (1992–1993), as well as House of Mouse (2001–2003) and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (2006–present).

Originally known as Dippy Dawg, the character is more commonly known simply as "Goofy," a name used in his short film series. In his 50s persona, Goofy was called George Geef, or G. G. Geef, implying that "Goofy" was merely a nickname. In Goofy Gymnastics (1949) he fills out a coupon with the name James Boyd. Sources from the Goof Troop continuity give the character's full name as Goofy Goof, or G. G. Goof, likely a reference to the 1950s name. In many other sources, both animated and comics, the surname Goof continues to be used. In other 2000s-era comics the character's full name has occasionally been given as Goofus D. Dawg.

Goofy (band)

Goofy is a K-pop group who achieved minor successes from their albums.

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.