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goobers

6.3

Small peanuts often eaten as a snack

noun
/ˈɡuːbərz/

Informal

: cacahuetes

At the baseball game, he bought a bag of goobers to share with his friends.

Examples

You can add chopped goobers to cookies for extra crunch and flavor.
She salted a bowl of goobers to set out at the summer picnic.
I love to snack on goobers while watching movies.
Do you want some goobers with your soda?
At the baseball game, he bought a bag of goobers to share with his friends.
I love to snack on goobers while watching movies.
Do you want some goobers with your soda?

Synonyms

peanut

vsgoobers

340 1.0

A small seed that grows in a pod underground and is eaten as a snack

is the informal snack word used for the seeds only

goober

vsgoobers

Informal

3 8.9

A peanut in its shell that usually has two seeds

is the informal name for the shelled seeds eaten as a snack

groundnut

vsgoobers

1 3.0

A small shell from the peanut plant that holds two nuts often eaten as a snack

is the informal American snack word for the shelled seeds

monkey nut

vsgoobers

1 6.1

A peanut that is still in its shell, often with two nuts inside

is the informal American snack word for the shelled seeds

goober pea

vsgoobers

9.3

A dry pod on the peanut plant that has two seeds you can eat

is the informal snack term for the shelled edible seeds

Antonyms

inedible

11 4.5

Not safe to eat because it can make you sick

nonfood

1 3.7

Things that are not food, like soap and blankets

Surface Forms

goobers singular

goobers plural

Morphology

goobers = goober (transparent) = goober + s

A regular plural form of 'goober' meaning 'peanut'; the plural meaning is directly predictable from the singular.

Etymology

Goobers for peanuts comes from an African word nguba that was brought to the American south and became goober in English. So goobers simply means 'peanuts' and is an informal name for that snack.