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  • adjective Alternative spelling of goosy.

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  • adjective having or revealing stupidity

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Examples

  • "Why you goosey, that is the Royal Hotel light -- the electric light."

    Marguerite Verne Rebecca Agatha Armour

  • "We're really kind of goosey here about oil spills," one fund-raiser attendee warned Sen. McCain.

    McCain Campaign, in Relaunch, 2008

  • So tense were her nerves on such occasions that she turned what is called "goosey" with the feel of the evaded fingers.

    Nocturne Frank Swinnerton 1933

  • Without a concrete plan to revisit, "loosey goosey" intentions are hard to enforce and all that is left is resentment and anger between parent and child.

    Carole Bennett, MA: Talking To Your Kids About Drugs: 4 Healthy Concepts To Consider MA Carole Bennett 2011

  • Sorry for the rant i just love this series and its like everyone is starting to be to loosy goosey with our movies!

    Twilight Lexicon » David Slade Gets Artistic 2010

  • Surprisingly, GOP has some sane ones who can engender a marriage between hard-line ultra-right wingers, and loosey-goosey liberals, and take a middle course, until atleast the problem is being addressed.

    Crist announces big fundraising haul 2009

  • So much more fun than the Oscars, because the nominees tend to be more what my cousin Catie calls "loosey goosey", or what I call "drunk".

    Live blog: The Golden Globes – live! | Hadley Freeman 2011

  • Without a concrete plan to revisit, "loosey goosey" intentions are hard to enforce and all that is left is resentment and anger between parent and child.

    Carole Bennett, MA: Talking To Your Kids About Drugs: 4 Healthy Concepts To Consider MA Carole Bennett 2011

  • It's not my state, it's not my country, even, but it's a state that many people think of as a land full of loosey-goosey liberals types, a place for people who find other areas too constraining, and for a state with that kind of reputation to uphold this ban on gay marriage can only say to other, more conservative states that even the more "open" states think it's not okay.

    No Less kittenpie 2009

  • They maintain that taking proper scent control measures will help keep deer from getting goosey, and that many, many bucks are not flash-shy at all.

    Camera-Shy Deer? 2009

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  • Also "swell" in the early 20th century sense, as in the song "Ever so Goosey" by Jack Hylton.

    How do you feel when you marry your ideal?

    Ever so goosey, goosey, goosey, goo--sey!

    How do you feel when the bells begin to peal?

    Ever so goosey, goosey, goosey, goo--sey!

    May 11, 2009