Goergeous

Jack Applin notes “First, he calls her “gorgeous”, later “goergeous”. Is she a goer? Nudge nudge? Also, she states that her hair “is a mess”, but it’s rendered as identical to how it’s always depicted.”

Looking this up, I see this from the Urban Dictionary:

In panel 7, the repeated compliments, and perhaps the coffee, have mollified her, but I don’t get the expression in her eyes in panel 8.  

7 Comments

  1. Unknown's avatar

    When I read this strip last Sunday, I completely missed the extra “e” in the penultimate panel. My interpretation was that Barney simply repeated the compliment, making it clear that he didn’t care about any of the issues she mentioned in panels three to six, which made her feel a lot better.

    P.S. I’m pretty sure that the spelling was an accident; it’s not like Gene Weingarten to write a strip that depends on an obscure millennial reference found in the Urban Dictionary and nowhere else. Other than that entry and this page, the only results of an Internet search for “goergeous” were obvious misspellings.

  2. Unknown's avatar

    Pelvic floor dysfunction is a pretty personal thing to have in a comic strip. It leads to difficulty with pooping and peeing, and possible (don’t image search this unless you’re very unsqueamish) uterine prolapse.

  3. Unknown's avatar

    I too, took “goergeous” to be an unintentional error. The look in the last panel is satisfied, maybe a bit smugly so.

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    She’s generally regarded (by herself as well) as a trophy wife. Except sometimes, like now…at least at the end.

  5. Unknown's avatar

    The problem with the U.D. definition of “goergeous” is that if you click the link for the root word “goer” you don’t get any definition remotely like what it means in the usage “she’s a bit of a goer”.

  6. Unknown's avatar

    @ Mikep (6) – If you are looking for reliable, consistent definitions, then the Urban Dictionary is not the place to go. It is entirely crowd-sourced, and seems to accept whatever drivel anyone cares to dump into it. At one point CIDU Bill even placed the URL in CIDU’s moderation trigger list, because links to there had a pronounced tendency to land in some sort of obscene sewer.

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