单词 | goody-goody |
释义 | goody-goodyn.1 Now rare. = goody n.3 ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet dredgec1350 confection1393 sugar-meat1586 trinket1587 confectionary1599 soot-meat1614 dulcid1694 sweetie1721 goody-goody1745 bon-bon1796 confiture1802 candy?1809 sweetmeat1812 sucker1823 dulce1834 lokum1845 goody1847 sweet1851 dragée1853 lolly1854 1745 J. Swift Direct. to Servants 13 The only Remedy is to bribe them with Goody Goodyes, that they may not tell Tales to Papa and Mamma. 1795 W. Cobbett Bone to gnaw for Democrats 64 We are wishing for a Revolution in England! and for what, I would be glad to know? to give the English a share of all the goody goodies, eh? 1826 Reg. Deb. Congr. U.S. 30 Mar. 393 A box of sweet-meats; goody goodies, as the overgrown children say. 1896 Daily News 2 Apr. 7/7 She had received the goodie-goodies and was delighted. 1922 Motorman & Conductor Feb. 30/2 Refreshments were served—ice cream, cakes, soft drinks and goody goodies in abundance. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). goody-goodyadj.n.2 depreciative. A. adj. Ostentatiously behaving in a correct or virtuous manner, typically so as to please people in positions of authority; smug and sanctimonious about the virtuousness of one's conduct. Also: expressing or characterized by this kind of behaviour or attitude. Cf. goody adj. 2. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > sanctimoniousness > [adjective] pope-holya1387 Pharisaical1527 as holy (also as sick, as strong) as a horse1530 hypocritish1531 hypocritic1540 hypocritely1541 hypocritical1553 horse-holy?1589 sanctified1604 Pharisee-like1611 sanctimoniousa1616 Pharisaica1618 lip-holy1624 Bible-bearing1625 canting1663 unctuous1742 pietistical1753 pietical1782 goody-goody1785 goody1808 Sunday school1817 Pecksniffian1844 goodyish1848 goody-good1851 devil-dodging?1861 pietic1865 mawwormish1883 pietistic1884 mawwormy1885 pi1891 pietose1893 holier-than-thou1912 antimacassar1913 holy1958 1785 G. A. Bellamy Apol. Life (ed. 2) I. xix. 124 That such silly goody goody stuff, as his epistle contained, should ever fall from the immortal pen of the immortal Roscius..‘was strange’. 1868 R. F. Burton Let. 19 Aug. in Lett. from Paraguay (1870) 241 The South American Monthly,..full of goody-goody talk. 1871 S. Smiles Character viii. 226 Goethe used to exclaim of goody-goody persons, ‘Oh! if they had but the heart to commit an absurdity!’ 1881 E. J. Worboise in Christian World 25 578/1 I abominate your goody-goody, circumspect, infallibly-proper young lady. 1922 C. E. Montague Disenchantment viii. 122 A man who did not care to use so sound a means to his ends was thought to be a goody-goody ass. 1973 A. Dundes Mother Wit 329 No amount of goody-goody sermonizing can in any way alter the fact [etc.]. 2008 C. Newkey-Burden in J. Burchill & C. Newkey-Burden Not in my Name 12 In my experience, it is the middle-class goody-goody straight boys who are the most hung up about gay people. B. n.2 A person who ostentatiously behaves in a correct or virtuous manner, typically to please people in positions of authority; esp. one who is smug and sanctimonious about the virtuousness of his or her conduct. Cf. goody n.4, goody-two-shoes n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > sanctimoniousness > [noun] > person Pharisee1539 card gospeller1550 lip-gospeller?1556 saint1563 table-gospeller1570 separatist1620 Christera1650 canter1652 high-liver1715 cant1725 pietist1767 devil dodger1791 goody1816 creeping Jesusc1818 Mawworm1825 goody-two-shoes1843 Pecksniff1844 goody-goody1872 goody-good1879 lip-Christian1882 plaster saint1890 holy Willie1916 1872 Gentleman's Mag. July 52 You are, we shall suppose, a clergyman, and..sick at heart from..the thorough sham of some of the respectable ‘goody-goodies’. 1873 Punch 11 Jan. 17/2 The three other Goody-goodies were Messieurs Cabanet, [etc.]. 1884 Bp. Fraser in T. Hughes Life (1887) 323 Don't talk goody-goody to people. 1889 Minutes National Council Congregational Churches U.S. 218 Thick-headed goody-goodies, who were fit for nothing else but to hold prayer-meetings and look after Sunday Schools. 1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 14/1 Night after night when my work was done I plugged straight for home, never stopping on the way. Not that I was a goody-goody though. 1958 E. Humphreys Toy Epic iii. 43 I forgive you for calling me a Methody quack-quack and a goody-goody. 1978 A. Waugh in Spectator 2 Sept. 6/2 Teachers, sociologists, goodie-goodies generally. 2002 Western Morning News (Plymouth) (Nexis) 1 Oct. 21 She was a rebel and I was rather a goody-goody at school. Derivatives ˈgoody-ˌgoodiness n. the quality of being goody-goody; cf. goody-goodyism n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > sanctimoniousness > [noun] hypocrisy?c1225 pope-holya1425 saunteringc1440 pope-holiness1528 Pharisaism?1573 lip-holiness1591 lip-religion1597 hypocrism1605 lip-devotion1613 sanctimonya1618 lip-worship1656 sanctimoniousness1679 unction1692 sanctification1768 goodiness1808 pietism1829 lip-reverencec1843 Pecksniffery1848 mawwormism1850 goody-good1851 lip-homage1858 devil-dodging1866 goody-goodiness1868 goody-goodyism1868 piosity1883 unctuosity1884 1868 E. Dallas in S. Richardson Clarissa (new ed.) I. Introd. p. vi We have been bored by the goody-goodiness of his [sc. Richardson's] preaching. 1884 Punch 8 Mar. 119/2 [A] speech full of..ponderous wisdom and imposing goody-goodyness. 1916 P. Grainger Let. 28 Aug. in All-round Man (1994) 26 I can't see why a being impelled to such a random untrammelled untamable affair as art at all shall still have about him this queer timid goody-goodiness. 1998 N.Y. Mag. 15 June 53/1 Blandness is all, even if the actors..do their damnedest to circumvent goody-goodiness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11745adj.n.21785 |
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