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Googie

adj · noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • /ˈɡuːɡi/
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1

adj

Meaning 1

Of a style of futurist modern American commercial architecture, popular from the 1950s to the early 1970s.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

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2

noun

Meaning 2

An egg.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Australia, slang

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History

Etymology

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

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