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Definition: Goober |
GooberNoun1. Pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: GooberSynonyms: earthnut (n), goober pea (n), groundnut (n), monkey nut (n), peanut (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Maybe we could hold the trial there. I'll sew the costumes and maybe Uncle Goober can be the judge (A Few Good Men; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin) Cause of death: a busted goober. (Mary Tyler Moore; writing credit: Harold Jacob Smith) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Goober and the Ghost-Chasers (1973) | |
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| "Goober" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Goober" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "goober": goober pea. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
goober | 80 |
goober the pea | 28 |
express goober | 5 |
chaser ghost goober | 4 |
goober pyle | 4 |
goober lyrics patrol | 3 |
goober patrol | 3 |
goober picture | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "goober"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | земляной орех (monkey-nut), арахисовый орех, арахис (peanut). (various references) | |
Thai | ถั่วลิสง. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "goober": goobers. (additional references) | |
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"Goober" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: boober, Gaobaeb, gauber, gelber, Geobel, Geobey, goabed, gobar, gobber, gobe, gober, gobern, Gobey, gobierno, goboe, Godbert, goder, Gojobori, Gombar, gonbee, gooder, goofer, goombay, goomer, gooner, gooser, goxer, Grober, groober, gubber, guber, Guiburn, Gulberk, Noubir. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: booger. | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-g-o-o-r" | |
-2 letters: berg, boor, bore, broo, ergo, gobo, goer, gore, oboe, ogre, robe. | |
-3 letters: beg, bog, boo, bro, ego, erg, gob, goo, gor, obe, orb, ore, reb, reg, rob, roe. | |
-4 letters: be, bo, er, go, oe, or, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-g-o-o-r" | |
+1 letter: boogers, goobers. | |
+2 letters: bourgeon, geoprobe. | |
+3 letters: bioregion, boogerman, boogermen, boomerang, bourgeois, bourgeons, geoprobes, rebooking, rebooting. | |
+4 letters: agoraphobe, bioregions, boomerangs, bootlegger, bourgeoise, bourgeoned, bridegroom, bryologies, embryology, footbridge, foreboding, gooseberry, negrophobe, overbought, prebooking, reblooming, tobogganer. | |
+5 letters: aboveground, aerobiology, agoraphobes, belowground, bioregional, boomeranged, boondoggler, bootleggers, bourgeoises, bourgeoisie, bourgeoning, bridegrooms, footbridges, forebodings, freebooting, globeflower, negrophobes, negrophobia, overblowing, overboiling, overbooking, prebiologic, strongboxes, tobogganers, tribologies. | |
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