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no-good orig. U.S.
[A n. use of the phr. no good: see good C. 5 g.]
1. A useless or valueless person or thing. Also attrib. Hence no-ˈgooder, (U.S. slang) no-goodnik [-nik], a no-good person.
1908E. J. Banfield Confessions of Beachcomber ii. i. 250 A no-good-boy wantonly brought about a big wind. 1924A. J. Small Frozen Gold i. 14 I'll learn you half-suckled no-goods what it means. 1931M. Allingham Look to Lady v. 59 A pack of crazy no-goods—strutting about in funny clothes. 1936S. P. Spivey in P. Oliver Screening Blues (1968) vi. 246 Oh you dirty no-gooder, you don't mean me no good. 1944This Week Mag. 22 Oct. 21/2 Any newspaper reader of the late '20's would remember this no-gooder. 1944S. J. Perelman Crazy like Fox (1945) 9 A parasite, a leech, a bloodsucker—altogether a five-star nogoodnick! 1947D. M. Davin Gorse blooms Pale 28 Taking that no-good Calaghan girl to every dance. 1948J. Steinbeck Russ. Jrnl. (1949) 100 The slovenly, no-good girl. 1958‘A. Gilbert’ Death against Clock 67 He recognized her almost at once for what she was, a gold⁓digger, a no-good. 1958R. Graves in Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Aug. p. x/2 And the committee would, I am sure, be a snuggery of all the no-goods and do-goods whom I have spent half my life successfully avoiding. 1958Listener 9 Oct. 569/2 A splendid comic performance by Alberto Sordi as a no-gooder from the city. 1959News Chron. 19 June 8/2 Holly..gets herself involved with a no-good hoofer in a low night club. 1960Sunday Express 10 July 15/6 He is a lazy no-good. 1960Guardian 23 Sept. 11/7, I know their type... Bums and nogoodniks, the lot of them. 1968N.Y. Times 3 Mar. 37 Lew Archer's job is to find a 17-year-old girl who has run off with a 19-year-old no⁓goodnik. 1971Black Scholar Sept. 38/2 It was snowin' when your no good daddy left me for that hussy. 1973W. M. Duncan Big Timer x. 67 This no-good whom I do not even see for weeks on end.
2. Phr. no good to Gundy: (see quots.). Austral.
The explanation in quot. 1945 seems improbable.
1919W. H. Downing Digger Dial. 35 No good to gundy, of no advantage. 1945Baker Austral. Lang. iv. 90 No good to Gundy, an elaboration of the simple ‘no good’, has been current since 1907 or before, and probably had its origin in America... The origin is more likely to be found..in the old U.S. phrase, according to Gunter. Gunter was a noted mathematician who gave his name to works of precision and accuracy. 1966G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. Austral. & N.Z. vi. 118 The unexplained phrase no good to Gundy, meaning simply ‘no good’ perhaps appeals because of its alliteration. |