goo-goo face
- noun
- /ˈɡuːˌɡuː feɪs/
- Baby Talk
:
cara de goo-goo
- She made a goo-goo face at the baby to make him laugh.
Examples
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He couldn't resist pulling a goo-goo face when he saw the puppy.
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Whenever she talks to her cat, she puts on that ridiculous goo-goo face.
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She made a goo-goo face at the baby.
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Why do you always make a goo-goo face?
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She made a goo-goo face at the baby to make him laugh.
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He couldn't resist pulling a goo-goo face when he saw the puppy.
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Whenever she talks to her cat, she puts on that ridiculous goo-goo face.
Synonyms
A face people make to look like a puppy when they ask for something
A silly face that looks like a pig to make people laugh
Antonyms
1
4.6
A calm, quiet way of behaving that shows you are thinking about important things
How Affectionate
- Baby Talk
- Informal
4
1.0
47
1.0
∞
1.0
11
4.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
goo-goo + face
The noun 'face' is transparent, but 'goo-goo' is a nonstandard onomatopoeic baby-talk item rather than a regular lexical morpheme, so the exact affectionate/exaggerated meaning must be inferred from register and cultural usage. A B1 learner who recognizes 'goo-goo' as baby-talk could guess it denotes a silly/affectionate facial expression directed at a baby, but that inference requires pragmatic/cultural knowledge and is not fully predictable from the parts alone.
Etymology
The phrase goo-goo face comes from the baby sound 'goo-goo' that adults copy while making a funny face to make a baby smile. That's why it now means a silly, very affectionate expression.