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  • adjective of or like a goon; thuggish; brutal.
  • adjective slang silly, crazy, foolish, stupid, or awkward.
  • noun informal a goon; a foolish, stupid, silly, or awkward person.
  • noun Alternate form of gooney (gooney bird, the black-footed albatross).

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  • noun a variety of albatross with black feet

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Examples

  • Here he was, eyeing her intently, proving that already he possessed all the faces he would ever use in this world—the lover, the worker, the goony bird and, my god, the judge.

    Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011

  • Here he was, eyeing her intently, proving that already he possessed all the faces he would ever use in this world—the lover, the worker, the goony bird and, my god, the judge.

    Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011

  • NO FKN WAY am i draggin my arse into a fkn goony bird. .even if BOND did it.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Gentlemen’s Club. 2009

  • Dominici returned, louder now, with a kind of goony certainty.

    The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010

  • Perhaps worst of all, I had to leave unplowed what looked like a new furrow of Occult Nazi scholarship, New Religions and the Nazis by Karla Poewe, and miss out on concentrated study of the artist Suzanne Treister's supremely goony Hexen 2039, a collection of art by her conspiracist, delusional, time-traveling alter ego Rosalind Brodsky that is considerably cleverer than that by real conspiracy nuts.

    Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2009

  • It's not some goony idea someone thought up just for the obama administration.

    Making the Ultimate Sacrifice for Health Care Reform 2009

  • Perhaps worst of all, I had to leave unplowed what looked like a new furrow of Occult Nazi scholarship, New Religions and the Nazis by Karla Poewe, and miss out on concentrated study of the artist Suzanne Treister's supremely goony Hexen 2039, a collection of art by her conspiracist, delusional, time-traveling alter ego Rosalind Brodsky that is considerably cleverer than that by real conspiracy nuts.

    princeofcairo: Some Corner Of A Foreign Fields That Is Forever Cairo princeofcairo 2009

  • When she brought us our bill I wanted to say something to her but everything that came to mind sounded goony.

    Chantal Dave Hingsburger 2007

  • In "" As You Like It, '' bedazzled Orlando sticks goony verses on Arden's trees: "" Winter'd garments must be lin'd/So must slender Rosalind. ''

    Reviving Ophelia 2008

  • Scardino -- found by casting director Margery Simkin after 500 auditions -- has a lovely, goony charm, and Litefoot, a Cherokee rap artist with no acting experience, is a delightful discovery.

    A Kid Finds His Inner Adult 2008

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  • Nightgown (Scots).

    August 19, 2009