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Goopy vs Roopy - What's the difference?

goopy | roopy |

As adjectives the difference between goopy and roopy

is that goopy is having the consistency of goop while roopy is hoarse.

goopy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Having the consistency of goop
    • The flask had something goopy in it.
  • Vague; undefined or sentimental
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=June 17, author=Jennifer Egan, title=Woman Warriors, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=“She’d had some goopy notion of self-sacrifice, or maybe it was self-punishment, of making amends.” }}

    roopy

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (Scotland)

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Hoarse.
  • *1863 , Charles Dickens, David Copperfield :
    • But he said he had observed I was sometimes hoarse — a little roopy was his exact expression — and it should be, every drop, devoted to the purpose he had mentioned.
  • *1934 , P G Wodehouse, Thank You, Jeeves :
    • It wasn't in its essentials a musical voice, being on the thick side and a shade roopy . If I'd been its owner, I'd have given more than a little thought to the subject of tonsils.

    Related terms

    * (l)