goosy
- adjective
- Informal
- She always acts goosy when she's excited, making silly faces and sounds.
Examples
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His goosy remarks during the meeting made everyone doubt his judgment.
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...like goosy pimples running all up and down your spine?
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- Gander, goosy, goosy.
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- Gander, goosy, goosy.
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After watching that silly movie, I felt all goosy and couldn't stop laughing.
Synonyms
Not intelligent and showing poor judgment
Not sensible and often a little foolish
Not showing good sense and making unwise choices
Not very smart and likely to act in a silly way
Very stupid and not thinking clearly
Silly and a little forgetful in a friendly way
Very stupid or showing poor judgment
Being silly and slightly crazy in a way that seems funny and harmless
Silly in a way that shows bad judgment
A little silly in a harmless, often funny way
Silly and awkward in a clumsy, funny way
Silly and slow to understand things
Very foolish and not sensible or responsible
Silly and acting in a foolish, awkward way
Being very foolish and clumsy in how someone thinks or acts
Slow to understand things and often acting foolishly
Very foolish and showing little sense
Very foolish and showing little common sense
Antonyms
How Silly
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word goosy comes from goose, the bird people often think of as silly, and the ending -y makes it mean 'like a goose'. So, if someone is goosy, they are acting 'silly' or not using good sense.