Goboon

Discovery:
Members of my household are unfamiliar with the word "goboon."

Goboon?? Howls of laughter. Never heard that word before.

The peacemaker surmised that "goboon" is a colloquialism in common usage in the midwest among people of Slovenian origin.


But does "gah-BOOON" sound Slovenian? Not to me.


This a language that produced sounds like hoo-DEECH and GAH-teh, names like Dobroslavovich and Milharsic and Floreancig, where g's and c's always seem hard and j's run around wild.


Gah-BOOON. How to spell it is a mystery. Gah-BOOON could not be found in a dictionary.



Usage: There is a goboon of azaleas in the back garden.





There is a goboon of mayapples near the downspout at the corner of the house.





There's a goboon of bracts on the neighbor's dogwood.

Goboon. Wonderful word, and if it isn't one, it should be.