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ˈgoody-ˈgoody, a. (and n.)
[reduplicated f. goody a.]
= goody a. and n.4
1871Smiles Charac. viii. (1876) 226 Goethe used to exclaim of goody-goody persons, ‘Oh! if they had but the heart to commit an absurdity!’ 1873Punch 4 Jan. 4/2 There are goody goody books; there are also baddy baddy books. Ibid. 11 Jan. 17/2 The three other Goody-goodies were Messieurs Cabanet, [etc.]. 1881E. J. Worboise in Chr. World XXV. 578/1, I abominate your goody-goody, circumspect, infallibly-proper young lady. 1881Macm. Mag. XLIII. 389/1 The illustrations are good, but the letter-press is of the type sometimes called ‘goody goody’. 1884Bp. Fraser in Hughes Life (1887) 323 Don't talk goody-goody to people. 1889Minutes Congregational Council (U.S.) 218 Thick-headed goody-goodies, who were fit for nothing else but to hold prayer-meetings and look after Sunday Schools. 1922C. 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. 1949R. Graves Seven Days in New Crete 12 The atmosphere..would be described as goody-goody, a word that conveys a reproach of complacency and indifference to the sufferings of the rest of the world. 1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. x. 191 One who makes up to a teacher..is a ‘goody-goody’, a ‘namby-pamby’.
Hence ˈgoody-ˈgoodyism; also ˈgoody-ˈgoodyness.
1881Athenæum 19 Feb. 261/3 The story of ‘What Might Have Been’..is a fair example of French goody-goodyism. 1884Punch 8 Mar. 119/2 [A] speech full of..ponderous wisdom and imposing goody-goodyness. 1886Bookseller Jan. 19/2 That talent..of teaching deep religious lessons, without disgusting her readers by any approach to cant or goody-goodyism. |