Adjective : a goony smile on his face. From Dictionary.com.
"There's quite a few gooney birds out there," Joyner says. From Wordnik.com. [Sports, Most Foul] Reference
Well, the fates had provided me with a gooney bird of a father. From Wordnik.com. [Say No to Murder] Reference
Unlike France, nobody much goes there, aside from the native gooney birds. From Wordnik.com. [William Bradley: Remembering America: Obama's D-Day Speech and Two Days in June] Reference
They stayed in Bangkok and commuted to the jungle daily in our gooney bird. From Wordnik.com. [Thud Ridge]
“The gooney birds are no longer with us,” reported Task Force Times that day. From Wordnik.com. [Daring Young Men] Reference
Who are these, you know, gooney Americans who could possibly think that we are biased?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 26, 2006] Reference
"Gony" and "gooney" then became quite prominent in British publications in the 19th century beginning in 1804. From Wordnik.com. [Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #156 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources] Reference
Me, the King of the Mimeo Revolution (according to Booklist), zinging around through cyberspace like a gooney bird. From Wordnik.com. [john bennett | murmurs and shards « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference
A neighbor who watched me challenge the elements of suburbia compared my ride to the spectacle of a gooney bird trying to land. From Wordnik.com. ['You Just Get On It And Go'] Reference
Having the knowledge that this show had a stint at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe would definitely make you sound more intelligent than a chattering gooney-bird. From Wordnik.com. [The Simpsons To Continue Until The End Of Time Itself – Fox] Reference
Although Dr. Seuss doesn't say where he got it from, it is probably a contraction of "gooney bird" a slang term for an oddballish person that was popular in the 1950's, especially in New York. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: NARTS.] Reference
Local unit support fits into this picture and a great mass of people not assigned to the formal military airlift effort were involved in flying the original C-47 gooney bird or some more sophisticated model thereof. From Wordnik.com. [Thud Ridge]
(Many of these visitors were the kind that usually traveled in the back end of a super gooney bird and got only close enough to the war effort to collect the same sixty-five dollars a month combat pay that the fighter pilots earned.). From Wordnik.com. [Thud Ridge]
The Goonies (1985): One of my now infamously-favorite descriptor words in my various podcasts series includes the word "gooney.". From Wordnik.com. [Screen Rant] Reference
On his way back to camp he discovered a few handfuls of sea salt in a crevice between some rocks, and the syndicate breakfasted an hour later on roast gooney. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates] Reference
The "sluts" you are referring to obviously put way more effort into their costumes than you did and frankly, I am apalled that your gooney eyeballs have been given a spot in the logo. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference
Palladium’s pretty gooney as a company but eh, not my problem. From Wordnik.com. [D&D Insider Ready To Go! And By “Go,” I Mean “Charge You For Nothing” « Geek Related] Reference
For me, the heart of the Flintstones are the character’s personalities; gruff but loveable Fred, Wilma who can stand up to anything Fred throws at her and come out on top, gooney and loyal Barney, and Betty, his long-suffering but good-natured wife. From Wordnik.com. [Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1980s — An In-Depth Review » DVDs Worth Watching] Reference
So never kill a gooney bird. From Wordnik.com. [The Albatross] Reference
What a piece of work that gooney bird is. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
The silly gooney duck. From Wordnik.com. [The Albatross] Reference
Mrs. pidgeon gooney bird books by lois lowry. From Wordnik.com. [100 Cool Teachers] Reference
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