goober
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- noun
- /ˈɡuːbər/
- Informal
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cacahuete
- The point is that the salt from the goober charges up the fizz and puts a little head on the Coke.
- goober, the peanut
Examples
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Goober means peanut.
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Get your fresh-roasted Georgia goobers, 10 cents a bag.
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Somehow, it has always seemed appropriate to call a peanut a goober when it is floating in a Coke.
Fiction book (1995) -
What does it look like I'm doing, picking goobers?
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For those readers who are in danger of making the same mistake, I should probably explain that people in some parts of the South sometimes refer to peanuts as goobers—a word apparently brought to this continent by African slaves, along with words like okra and gumbo.
Fiction book (1995) -
At the fair, I bought a bag of goobers to enjoy while watching the show.
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The kids ran around munching on roasted goobers during the picnic.
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My grandmother always uses goobers in her famous peanut butter cookies.
Synonyms
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1.0
A small seed that grows in a pod underground and is eaten as a snack
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6.1
A peanut that is still in its shell, often with two nuts inside
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3.0
A small shell from the peanut plant that holds two nuts often eaten as a snack
A dry pod on the peanut plant that has two seeds you can eat
The pod of the peanut plant that holds the edible nuts
Small peanuts often eaten as a snack
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word goober for 'peanut' comes from an old African word nguba that came to the American South and is still seen in the phrase goober pea. So a goober is a peanut.