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goofy

goofy

Date: Apr 06 2005

Quote

1. Quote - Listen to the quote and guess what the slang means.

“They were all pretty goofy. There was a street fair, and a friend of mine named Steve had been drinking and eating too much street-fair food.”
-Beck, talking about one of his early songs with * Rolling
Stone
’s Austin Skaggs*.

Definition

1. Definition - Study the definition.

goofy means silly and a little bit crazy and fun

2. Use - Learn how the slang is used.

I have to admit that I get pretty goofy when I have chocolate. It’s not the sugar or the caffeine. It’s the chocolate.
When I eat chocolate, I start talking really quickly and I feel like I can’t control my thoughts. I just go crazy because I feel so goofy!
The last time I had chocolate and got goofy was on Easter. Everyone knows that Easter is a day for eating chocolate. After eating close to a pound of chocolate, my eyes were bugging out and I wasn’t making any sense. Pretty soon I had to take a nap and recover from the goofiness.

Examples

1. Examples - Hear some example sentences.

“Dude! What’s wrong with you? You are being so goofy!”

””Dude! What’s wrong with you? You are being so goofy!”
“My sister is really goofy. She only watches TV when she is in her pajamas. She will change clothes before she turns it on. She’s weird.”
“Did you hear that John got all mad when his girlfriend called him goofy? That’s just silly. He takes himself way too seriously.”

“My sister is really goofy. She only watches TV when she is in her pajamas. She will change clothes before she turns it on. She’s weird.”

“Did you hear that John got all mad when his girlfriend called him goofy? That’s just silly. He takes himself way too seriously.”

Winners

1. Winners - See who guessed the slang definition correctly.

If you describe someone or sth as GOOFY, you think they are rather silly or ridiculous.
Also it can be to GOOF OFF, what means not want to work, be lazy (e.g. That guy is an eager beaver.He never goofs off)
by Liliya (Rennes, France)
silly, ridiculous
by Jane (philadelphia, USA)
goofy=silly
by iman (mashhad, iran)
Goofy means weird, strange.
by Marcelo (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
very study,foolish thing or people
by Jill (Taipei, Taiwan)
pretty crazy
by anichel (Monterrey, Mexico)
foolish, silly
by zoe (, taiwan)
I think`”goofy” means:being crazy, ridiculous, or mildly ludicrous, silly.
by Viviane (Jaú-SP, Brazil)
Goofy means stupid, silly.Not very acute,but of a little lovely.
by Janet (, )
goofy probably means something silly,not that smart.
by Jack (Xi’An, China)
Goofy = (Slang) Ridiculous, foolish, silly, stupid
by Jeff (São Paulo, Brazil)
Silly or foolish
by Elena (Ottawa, Canada)
It means silly,stupid or dumb.
by Emily (Qinhuangdao, China)
I think goofy means stupid, insane
by Fatima (Rio de Janeiro – , Brazil)
It´s simply, silly.
by rosane (cruzeiro, Brazil)
Being goofy is like being silly, playing and not being one’s normal self
by Grace (Darhan, Mongolia)
it means something that appears silly or stupid
by amir (mashhad, iran)
If they were all pretty goofy, they were rather silly or ridiculous.
by Matilda (Taipei, ROC)
it is an adjective that describes a silly or even stupid behavior normally producing a lot of fun.
by kevin (Tianjin, China)
silly, foolish
by Audrey (BJ, CHINA)
i guess it means something that is very weird ,quirky in a sense.
by cissy (, singapore)
I guess “goofy” means stupid,foolish or silly.
by Michelle (Wide goose, China)
stupid/foolish
by cynthia (beijng, China)
goofy’ here means silly and stupid.
by lucia (hong kong, )
It means stupid, silly one
by Kama (Baki, Azerbaijan)
I think it´s a silly thing,for example:I like jane but she´s a little goofy.
by Alan yves (são paulo, Brazil)

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alec33

United States

hey, i also found in Urban Dictionary that goofy means odd, opinionated and awkward when was writing an ethymology stats piece for yourhomeworkhelp.org. so i’ve got a little bit confused as to which meaning to write down or both are possible?

09:59 AM Nov 09 2017 |

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