What's the difference between gooey and goofy?

Gooey


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 3 Bake for about 15 minutes – the cake will have a crunchy surface and be gooey inside.
  • (2) Add cheese, soup, mustard, salt and pepper over low gas; stir gently until it is one gooey mass.
  • (3) These performances are splendid, but the principals are exceptional: Thompson finds vulnerability beneath Travers's spikes, and Hanks brings a steely tenor to Disney that prevents him from becoming completely gooey.
  • (4) It demands huge amounts of energy to dig the thick, gooey petroleum from the earth, a process that is up to 4.5 times as carbon intensive as conventional oil extraction.
  • (5) He wasn't quite ready, though, for baked cheese, with all its smelly and delicious gooeyness.
  • (6) Several pastry outlets - including a French patisserie - bake bread and gooey cakes.
  • (7) Leek, taleggio and thyme pie The creamy taleggio and leeks cook down together to form a delicious, gooey filling, and the parsley adds a fresh note.
  • (8) The Miliband brothers, whom cartoonists still put in short trousers, are clearly not contemplating dotage just yet, and so surely their gooey professions of love should be set aside for the sterner dictates of combat.
  • (9) The Complete Nose to Tail by Fergus Henderson (Bloomsbury) Chocolate, orange and anise tart This smooth and gooey chocolate tart, set in crisp, almond pastry, is rich with dark undertones of coffee and spiked with anise.
  • (10) There is a whiff of this with Hab's gooey talk about "making people happy", although they are conscious of the need not to over-control.
  • (11) His version of The Shining "ends with the hotel burning, and [Kubrick's] with the hotel freezing" because he is a "warm and gooey" person while Kubrick was "the coldest guy in the universe".
  • (12) Recipe supplied by Kristin Rosenau, pastryaffair.com Rhubarb self-saucing pudding Self-saucing puddings are magical: what goes in to the oven as a dish full of batter transmogrifies into a golden-topped sponge with a deliciously saucy, gooey bottom.
  • (13) Cities designed around cars, he said, had the effect of producing “not mobility, but a hermitage of the single home in an ever-increasing sea of single units, a dreadful flat-land of self-denial, courtesy of the great fiction of self-sufficiency.” Spread people out into “a square-mile thin pancake,” he said, and you end up with “a slimy veneer of organic matter of no use to you or the observer puzzled by the thin, gooey-drip man.
  • (14) A common theme in the comments expressing dismay at my shameful acceptance of fatherhood is that people go all sappy when they have a baby; ergo, every word I wrote from this point on would be shot through with gooey, complacent sentiment.
  • (15) 3 Pour the mix into the tin and bake for 35-40 minutes, until the brownie is setting around the outside and still gooey in the centre.
  • (16) The standing room-only crowd spills into the adjacent square for good reason: the city's best coxinhas (croquettes stuffed with chicken and gooey catupiry cheese), doused in housemade hot sauce; and bartender's Souza's competition-slaying caipirinhas in new combinations (tangerine with dedo-de-moça pepper, cashew with lime) and exotic fruits (jabuticaba, starfruit) are the perfect fuel for an full-on evening.
  • (17) You can see when the brownies are ready because the top dries to a slightly paler brown speckle, while the middle remains dark, dense and gooey.
  • (18) I wanted to harrumph and complain about Michele Hanson's emotional pro-dog piece a couple of weeks ago (G2, 9 December), but Zoe Williams' gooey effort about the Dogs Trust in Canterbury ( Saturday sketch , 21 December) has forced me out of my inertia.
  • (19) Sure, there are some (quite funny) masturbation jokes, but at its core, this is as gooey romantic as it gets.
  • (20) Microfoam is gooey and velvety, turning my rocket fuel into a treat.

Goofy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After dismissing the ending of Revolutionary Road as "falsely bleak" and telling his audience that "there's something goofy about American literature since modernism came to an end", the celebrated author of Freedom and The Corrections moved on to social media .
  • (2) Key, a trader turned politician who combines a CEO-style leadership approach with a down-to-earth, sometimes goofy personal image, continues to rank by far the highest in preferred prime minister polling.
  • (3) As intentionally goofy as it was, it was meant to go viral, to secretly spread optimism not just among the clearly on-board diehards in the Staples crowd but all throughout the basketball world.
  • (4) (Goofy as it sounds, this one actually helped me a lot.)
  • (5) Hard Festival's Richards wanted to lose the "goofy fashion" side of rave that EDC revels in.
  • (6) The Big Bang Theory’s Kaley Cuoco has been getting a lot of play this week—as William Shatner’s secret daughter in the new Priceline ads , and now as a goofy genie who mishears wishes Emily Litella -style while promoting the Toyota RAV4 .
  • (7) Baskets, of course, is his own brand of outrageous and goofy dingus.
  • (8) It was quite a serious story but punctuated by these soundbites of goofy cartoon noises,” Kanoniuk said.
  • (9) The goofy hashtag didn't prevent most readers from taking the tweet for sincere.
  • (10) Hot Tub with Kurt and Kristen Their last visit to Edinburgh saw them nominated for the If.Comedy award for their goofy sketch-show Double Down Hearts.
  • (11) It’s easy to tell from the very start when a celebrity has the goods to be a great Saturday Night Live host – are they smart, goofy, and willing to make fun of themselves and their friends?
  • (12) Sellars admits his stagings have often been characterised by "whatever crazy or goofy thing is going on", but 30-odd years after he began his professional career, his focus has changed.
  • (13) There is the goofy 47-year-old actor and writer whose sleepy chipmunk face and everyman demeanour give no hint of his estimated $300m (£180m)fortune – nor the $25m price-tag (including producer's fee) that comes with his participation on a movie.
  • (14) Korine is big-sisterly and diplomatic, Benson and Hudgens are goofy, gabby, earnest and lovable by turns, while Gomez, the youngest and the only non-blonde in the movie, is often the one who sensibly and self-deprecatingly re-routes a conversation going adrift, who actually answers the original question, exuding the kind pragmatism, sanity and poise you might expect from a hard-bitten 13-year veteran of the kiddie-showbiz wars.
  • (15) Public Enemy was meant to be a lively democracy, with Chuck mediating between the goofy, anarchic Flavor Flav and the stern, ultra-militant “Minister of Information” Professor Griff, but that didn’t pan out.
  • (16) Wife and stepson charged in murder of Ku Klux Klan leader in Missouri Read more Asked for comment on the report, Andrew Anglin, the founder of the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer site, wrote: “It’s just more of the same goofy gibberish from the Jews.” After decades on the fringes of American life, racist hate groups found themselves unexpectedly in the mainstream news spotlight last year, as Ku Klux Klan members and neo-Nazis rejoiced at Donald Trump’s rise and his presidential victory.
  • (17) But mostly the magic of my daughter’s joy at comparing ear length with Goofy, meeting Elsa (spoiler: “it’s not the real one, she’s wearing a wig”) and dancing along at a high-energy deck party, while I necked alcoholic blue-and-pink slush puppies.
  • (18) 'Dad's an awesome guy, he's a fun guy, he's a goofy guy, he likes to make people laugh, he likes to buy gifts for people and stuff' - I never experienced that with them.
  • (19) Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel are competing for a young, online audience, not with the old tricks – monologues, interviews, skits – but with goofy segments ready-made for viral consumption.” Even before moving to the US, Corden had amassed more than 4.5 million Twitter followers.
  • (20) The son of the talented and well-liked former New Orleans Saints quarterback Archie Manning, Peyton might not be as handsome as a Brady or a Donovan McNabb, but makes up for that with a goofy and self-deprecating sense of humour.

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