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sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

What?

I’ve literally never heard of goober as meaning peanut.

I thought it basically just meant ‘glob’ when describing a physical thing, and when describing a person, basically the same as ‘derpy’, like uh, silly, absent minded, something like that, and is mostly meant in an at least semi endearing way.

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croizat@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It’s why the Goofy Goober from SpongeBob is a peanut

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Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It’s a borrowed African word. Borrowed in the 1800s. Borrowed by Americans. Borrowed. But it eventually shifted at some point in the last century to the definition most people are familiar with, though I can’t figure out how or why.

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- HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  perhaps you are looking for the word loanword can i lend it to you?
  
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- sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Huh, well TIL, thanks!
  
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