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▪ I. goody, n.1|ˈgʊdɪ|
[Shortened from goodwife, as hussy from housewife.]
1. a. A term of civility formerly applied to a woman, usually a married woman, in humble life; often prefixed as a title to the surname. Hence, a woman to whose station this title is appropriate. † goody-madam: a lady who has risen from a lower rank.
1559Will of J. Eltoftes (Somerset Ho.), Goody Wilkes [Ibid., Goodwyff Wylkes]. a1625Beaum. & Fl. Lover's Progr. v. iii, So goody agent? And you think there is No punishment due for your agentship. 1638Ford Fancies iii. ii, I doe confesse, I thinke the goodee-madame may possibly be compast. 1664Wood Life (O.H.S.) II. 15 To gooddy Gale for mending my stockings, 6d. 1708F. Fox in Hearne Collect. 3 July (O.H.S.) II. 117 Goody Vesey my bed⁓maker. 1708T. Ward Eng. Ref. (1716) 156 Fame, a busie tatling Guddy. 1736Disc. Witchcraft 26 We now hear talk of this old Gammar, and that old Goody. 1764O'Hara Midas i. ii, Pray Goody, please to moderate The rancour of your tongue. 1798Wordsw. (title) Goody Blake and Harry Gill. 1801Bloomfield Rural T. (1802) 6 Well Goody, don't stand preaching now. 1882M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal I. iv. 109 Two or three village goodies.
transf.1591Spenser M. Hubberd 1213 Soft Gooddie Sheepe (then said the Foxe) not soe.
¶b. = goodman 4.
1583Stanyhurst Conceites in æneis, etc. (Arb.) 136 Wheare rowed earst mariners, theare nowe godye carman abydeth.
2. U.S. At Harvard College, a woman who has the care of the students' rooms (Hall College Words).
1827–8Harvard Reg. (Hall College Words), His friend the Goody, who had been so attentive to him during his declining hours. 1859O. W. Holmes Prof. Breakf.-t. viii, The late Miss M., a ‘Goody’ so called, or sweeper. 1893W. K. Post Harvard Stories 79 There are many individuals that make up the university population of Cambridge—unofficial members. There are the..goodies. 1902J. Corbin American at Oxford 12 The scout is in effect a porter, ‘goody’, and eating-club waiter rolled into one.
Hence † ˈgoodyship, the personality of a goody.
1663Butler Hud. i. iii. 517 The more shame for her goody-ship, To give so near a friend the slip.
▪ II. goody, n.2|ˈgʊdɪ|
[f. good a. + -y.]
A sweetmeat. Chiefly pl. Also goody-goody.
1745Swift Direct. to Servants Wks. 1883 XI. 375 The only remedy is to bribe them with goody-goodies, that they may not tell tales to papa and mamma. 1756B. Franklin Lett. Wks. 1887 II. 454 They..present their hearty respects to you for the goodies. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxxi. (1856) 268 ‘Goodies’ we had galore [at Christmas]. 1853Mrs. Gaskell Cranford v. 75 The ‘mother dear’ probably answered her boy in the form of cakes and ‘goody’, for there were none of her letters among this set. 1877Holderness Gloss., Goody, sweets. ‘Fetch us a hawporth o' goody.’ 1882Stevenson Fam. Stud. 241 All knowledge is to be had in a goody. 1890C. M. Yonge More Bywords 137 People thought they had come fresh out of Lady Bountiful's goody-box. 1896Daily News 2 Apr. 7/7 She had received the goodie-goodies and was delighted. 1931E. Wilson Axel's Castle vii. 253 She is an American woman of the old sort, she who cares for the handmade goodies and who scorns the factory-made foods.
▸ goody-bag n. a bag of gifts (originally sweets), esp. one of a number presented to the guests at a party or event; cf. party bag n. at party n. Compounds 5.
1929Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 4 Dec. 16 d/2 The poor children of the community receive toys and a Yuletide *goody bag. 2004Independent on Sunday 25 Apr. (Rev. section) 37/4 They're surely the world's most comfortable flip-flop and now so hip, gold pairs were given away in this year's Oscar-night goodie-bag.
▪ III. goody, n.3 U.S.|ˈgʊdɪ|
A sciænoid fish, the spot, Liostomus xanthurus.
1859Bartlett Dict. Amer., Cape May Goody. 1884–5Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) III. 215 A much smaller species..otherwise known as ‘Lafayette’ or ‘Cape May goodie’.
▪ IV. goody, a. and n.4|ˈgʊdɪ|
[f. good a. + -y.]
A. adj.
†1. ? Cosy, comfortable. Obs.
1813T. Moore Mem. (1853) I. 344 The offer of such a quiet, goody retreat as Ready's is every way convenient.
2. Good in a weak or sentimental way; addicted to or characterized by inept manifestations of good or pious sentiment. Also, to talk goody. Goody-two-shoes (see two n. IV. 2).
[1810: cf. goodiness below.] 1830J. Wilson in Blackw. Mag. Apr. 688 Characters well drawn—incidents well managed—..moral good, but not goody. 1833Coleridge Table-t. 20 Aug., There can be no great poet who is not a good man, though not perhaps a goody man. 1837Sterling Let. 16 Nov. in Carlyle Life ii. v. (1851) 193 All this may be mere goody weakness and twaddle, on my part. 1865G. Macdonald A. Forbes 45 The only remarks made being some goody ones about the disgrace of being kept in. 1867H. Kingsley Silcote of S. xxvii. (1876) 178 She did not talk ‘goody’ to them. 1871Monthly Packet Christmas No. 103 Two girls who had stopped..to see if there were anything new among the..goody-books. 1890Sat. Rev. 1 Feb. 150/2 A lackadaisically sentimental and commonplace ballad..which is sure to be popular with a certain class of ‘goody people’.
B. n.4 U.S. A goody person. Now usu. in colloq. use opp. baddy.
1873C. M. Yonge Pillars of House IV. xxxix. 147 She is the most thorough Goody I ever came across. 1878J. Cook Conscience ii. (1879) 25 No doubt, if a Cæsar or a Napoleon comes before some man of weak will, the latter, although he be a good man,—and especially if he be a ‘goody’, a very different thing—will quail. 1901Contemp. Rev. Mar. 436 This goody ought to moderate the rancour of his tongue. 1951,1958[see baddy].
Hence ˈgoodyish a., somewhat ‘goody’; ˈgoodyism, ‘goody’ principles, something characteristic of ‘goody’ people; ˈgoodyness, ˈgoodiness, the quality of being ‘goody’.
1810Coleridge Ess. Own Times (1850) 664 Whose goodness, or (if I may be allowed to coin a word, which the times, if not the language, require) whose goodiness, consists [etc.]. 1841Edin. Rev. LXXIII. 367 Clifford's extreme goodness (to borrow a phrase from Coleridge) not unfrequently degenerates into goodiness. 1842Blackw. Mag. LII. 674 Then came the days of ‘Goodyism’, that left childhood a blank—whipped when naughty, and more miserable when too good. 1864Spectator 24 Dec. 1479/2 A goodyish story, and about as readable as that kind of thing usually is. 1872W. Cory in Lett. & Jrnls. (1897) 278 The small-townish, old-maidish goodyness of Eugénie Grandet. 1883American V. 268 He is singularly free from the cheap unction..the goodyisms, which are the temptations of the modern pulpit. 1898Dublin Rev. Jan. 218 The obtrusive goodyness which has been apt to make Catholic children shy of Catholic literature.
▪ V. goody, int. Chiefly U.S.|ˈgʊdɪ|
Also goody goody.
[f. good a. + -y6. Cf. lordy int.]
A childish exclamation denoting delight, satisfaction, or surprise.
1796‘A. Barton’ Disappointment (ed. 2) ii. iii, Oh! goodee, goodee, oh! we shall see presently. 1853B. F. Taylor Jan. & June (1871) 125 Port's tongue [being] busy the while with..‘may I go?’ and ‘goody! goody!’ to a provisional affirmative. 1886Baumann Londinismen 67/1 My goody, goodness gracious! 1890Harper's Mag. Mar. 608/1 You're coming home with us?.. Yes? Oh, goody! You'll come? 1898P. L. Ford Hon. Peter Stirling 244 ‘That makes five,’ said Peter. ‘Oh, goody!’ said Leonore, ‘I mean,’ she said, correcting herself, ‘that that is very kind of you.’ 1949Landfall III. i. 57 His mother was out, goody. 1953H. Miller Plexus (1963) x. 352, I see Halvah and Baklava too. Goody goody! 1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. ix. 161 Cries of jubilation include: Wow! Whacko! Goody gumdrops! Lovely grub! and By gog jolly custard! 1960J. Grant Come Again, Nurse x. 54 ‘Just in time,’ said the Registrar jovially. ‘Goody goody gum drops.’ He walked over to the coffee pot and helped himself. 1967N. Freeling Strike Out 16 Buttered toast, and cherry cake, as well as Marmite. Goody, goody gumdrops. |