Dictionary Definition
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Pronunciation
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- Homophones: GUI
Translations
of, or related to goo
- Finnish: tahmainen
soft, sticky and viscous
- Finnish: tahmea
Extensive Definition
Gooey was an Internet
chat application that turned very popular in 1999. Gooey allows
people who are simultaneously browsing the same Web sites to
communicate with each other, creating big chat rooms in
portals and
thematic websites. Gooey was acquired by CNET and closed in
2000. It was
initially coded by Luwei Zhou, who decided to choose a name that
rhymes with "Luwei". The program was written in G++ (Guwei ++), a
spinoff of the popular programming language C++. Curiously, this
application was considered by the press to be an evolution of
ICQ.
Recently, the Gooey concept was resuscitated in
Gabbly. The
program works directly on web browsers, without installation.
External links
- Maker of Gooey chat finds buyer at news.com
- href="http://www.gooey.com/">http://www.gooey.com/ Gooey (Internet Archive)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
adhesive, amylaceous, bathetic, beery, clabbered, clammy, clotted, cloying, coagulated, curdled, doughy, drippy, gaumy, gelatinous, glairy, gluelike, gluey, glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, grumous, gumbo, gumbolike, gumlike, gummous, gummy, gushing, heavy, inspissated, jelled, jellied, jellylike, maudlin, mawkish, mucilaginous, mushy, namby-pamby, nostalgic, nostomanic, oversentimental,
oversentimentalized,
pasty, romantic, ropy, saccharine, sappy, sentimental, sentimentalized,
slabby, slimy, slithery, sloppy, slushy, soft, soppy, soupy, starchy, sticky, stodgy, stringy, sugary, sweet, syrupy, tacky, tear-jerking, teary, tenacious, thick, thickened, tough, tremelloid, tremellose, unctuous, viscid, viscose, viscous