词汇 | goop |
词源 | goop. A bad-mannered, inconsiderate person; a sticky, wet substance; something messy and unpleasant to handle. Another of the many words coined by American humorist Gelett Bur- gess, this one in Goops and How to Be Them (1900). Burgess may have used the word goo, first printed in the U.S. (ca. 1910) to build goop. See blurb. |
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