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- noun Plural form of
gooney .
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Examples
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"Of all the gooneys that ever got away from the backwoods, _we_ take the bun!"
The Mission of Janice Day Helen Beecher Long
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For a week they subsisted on gooneys, taro root, cocoanuts and cocoanut milk, and a sea-turtle which Scraggs found wandering on the beach.
Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates Gordon [Illustrator] Grant 1918
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The gooneys were becoming shy and distrustful and the syndicate was experiencing more and more difficulty, not only in killing them, but in eating them.
Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates Gordon [Illustrator] Grant 1918
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He found some gooneys asleep on a rocky crag and killed half a dozen of them with a club.
Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates Gordon [Illustrator] Grant 1918
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