goober

1. 1.

   pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms

   Synonymspeanutearthnutgoober peagroundnutmonkey nut

   Broaderedible nut

   Part ofpeanut

Other forms of goober

plural

goobers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about goober

What does goober mean?

goober means "pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms".

How many syllables are in goober?

goober has 2 syllables: goo-ber. The stress falls on "goo".

What is another word for goober?

Close synonyms include peanut, earthnut, goober pea, groundnut, monkey nut. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is goober a common word?

goober is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.