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• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wait, goober is a foodstuff?

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  • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Another name for a peanut. Not sure how it became a soft pejorative, but I’m a fan

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    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s why the Goofy Goober from SpongeBob is a peanut

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      • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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• U7826391786239@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  you will never quantify an inherently subjective (qualitative) experience

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  • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Objective truth, ungoober’d

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