Googie

//ˈɡuːɡi// adj, noun, slang

adj, noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun

1
An egg. Australia, slang
"On one of the Northern lines there was a lane where a certain train stopped nearly every day for an old dame who was always waiting to send some eggs into town. One day the train stopped for Granny, as usual, and she explained to the driver that owing to circumstances over which she had no control she could raise eleven "googies" only on that occasion."

Adjective

1
Of a style of futurist modern American commercial architecture, popular from the 1950s to the early 1970s. not-comparable
"This is one of those 60s Googie-style structures—faded space-age futuristic. Young Mexicans dry the cars by hand."

"This is one of those 60s Googie-style structures—faded space-age futuristic. Young Mexicans dry the cars by hand."

Etymology 1

From Googie's Coffee Shop, name of a now-defunct coffee shop in West Hollywood, from the nickname of the original owner's wife.

Etymology 2

From Irish and Scottish Gaelic gugaí/gogaí/gogaidh, a nursery word for an egg.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.