gooney

Other forms of gooney

plural

gooneys·

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 gooney

What does gooney mean?

gooney means "a variety of albatross with black feet".

How many syllables are in gooney?

gooney has 2 syllables and divides as goo-ney under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for gooney?

Close synonyms include black-footed albatross, gooney bird, goonie, goony, Diomedea nigripes. 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 gooney a common word?

gooney is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.