Meaning & use
Goony
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Silly, clumsy, or foolish in a good-natured, comical way.
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He made a goony face to get the baby to laugh.
Their goony antics on stage always had the audience laughing.
A note on using this word
Derived from 'goon,' a slang term for a foolish or clumsy person, popularized in mid-20th-century American English.
Words with a similar meaning
sillyclownish
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Words with an opposite meaning
seriousdignified
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