gooey
adj.adj. having a soft, sticky, and unpleasant texture. You use this to describe things like melted chocolate or thick glue that feels messy.
adj. having a soft, sticky, and unpleasantly viscous consistency. Often used to describe substances that are messy or have a tactile quality that is perceived as unappealing.
The melted chocolate is very gooey and sticky.
The children were covered in gooey mud after the storm washed through the park.
The chef carefully tempered the sugar to ensure the caramel remained gooey enough to stretch without breaking, yet firm enough to hold its shape on the cake.
Etymology tree English burgoo? Proto-Indo-European *gleyH- Proto-Indo-European *glóh₁ytn̥ Proto-Italic *gloiten Latin glūten Late Latin glūs Old French glubor. Middle English glew English glue? English goo Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -ey English gooey The adjective is derived from goo + -ey (a variant of -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having the quality of’)). The noun is derived from the adjective.