Hurling vs Goo - What's the difference?
hurling | goo |
The act by which something is hurled or thrown.
* Charles Dickens, Pincher Astray
An Irish game of Celtic origin dating from AD400. It is played with an ash stick called a hurley ( in Irish) and a hard leather ball called a sliotar.
A Cornish street game resembling rugby, played with a silver ball.
(uncountable, informal) Any semi-solid or liquid substance; especially one that is sticky, gummy or slippery; frequently of vague or unknown composition, or a bodily fluid.
Excessive, showy sentimentality
To apply goo to something.
As nouns the difference between hurling and goo
is that hurling is the act by which something is hurled or thrown while goo is (uncountable|informal) any semi-solid or liquid substance; especially one that is sticky, gummy or slippery; frequently of vague or unknown composition, or a bodily fluid or goo can be an example of baby talk.As verbs the difference between hurling and goo
is that hurling is while goo is to apply goo to something or goo can be to produce baby talk.hurling
English
Noun
- The butcher's boy — a fierce and beefy youth, who openly defied the dog, and waved him off with hurlings of his basket and threatenings of his feet, accompanied by growls of "Git out, yer beast!" — now entered silently
Verb
(head)goo
English
Etymology 1
American English, known since 1903, probably from (1787), possibly an alteration of glue.Noun
(-)- ''I stepped in some goo and had a terrible time getting the sticky stuff off my shoes.
- ''When dad couldn't stand the goo anymore, he stopped Tommy's tearful goodbye from the Swedish au-pair Matts, firmly smacking the boys' pants and grumbling "Now stop the goo or I'll give each of you a reason to cry!"
Derived terms
* from goo to you by way of the zoo * gooey * gooeynessSynonyms
* gloop * glop * gook * goop * gunge * gunk * gum * muck * ooze * paste * slop * sludgeVerb
(en verb)- ''They gooed their hair with some fragrant styling product.