Goldilocksn.

Brit.

/ˈɡəʊldɪlɒks/, U.S.

/ˈɡoʊldiˌlɑks/

Forms: 1500s Goldilocx, 1500s Goldylocx, 1500s–1600s Goldielockes, 1500s–1600s Goldilockes, 1500s–1600s Goldylockes, 1500s–1900s Goldylocks, 1500s– Goldilocks, 1800s– Goldielocks; English regional (northern) 1800s Goudilocks, 1800s Goudylocks; also Scottish pre-1700 Govdelokis. Also (esp. in sense 2) with lower-case initial.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: goldy adj., lock n.¹

Etymology: < goldy adj. + the plural of lock n.¹Goldilocks and the Three Bears. In most versions of the folk tale of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Goldilocks enters the house of the bears and successively tries and rejects the food, chairs, and beds of the mother and father bears, before declaring in each case that only that of the baby bear is ‘just right’. The first known publication of the story in which the character has the name Goldilocks (rather than equivalents such as Golden Hair in some earlier versions) is in Old Nursery Stories & Rhymes (c1904), although see quot. 1875 at sense 1 for earlier association of goldilocks with this tale. Specific senses. In use with reference to plants (see sense 3) partly after classical Latin chrȳsocomē (Pliny) and its etymon Hellenistic Greek χρυσοκόμη. Compare the following earlier use as an etymologizing gloss of the Greek noun:1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 47^v Ivpiters Beard, called of the Greekes Chrysokome, as you would say Goldilocks. It is hairie like Isope. In sense 3b after classical Latin auricomus (see auricomous adj.) in its post-classical Latin and scientific Latin use in plant names (17th cent. or earlier designating a species of buttercup). In early use in sense 3c after scientific Latin Chrysocoma, genus name ( Linnaeus Species plantarum (1753) II. 840; originally including Galatella linosyris).

1. (A nickname for) a person who has golden hair.In later use, often with reference or allusion to the folk tale of Goldilocks and the Three Bears (see note in etymology).

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > hair > colour of hair > [noun] > golden > person having

Goldilocks1549

1549 in W. Cramond Rec. Elgin (1903) I. 99 Muerell Govre, govdelokis.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iv. 128 Pure goldie-lockes Sol, States-friend, [etc.].

1615 E. Hoby Curry-combe i. 49 To set out the picture like a Goldylocks, with Rebatoes, red Sattin Petticotes, and loose Gownes.

1664 C. Cotton Scarronides 98 My Goldylocks, (quoth she) my Joy, My pretty, little-tyny-Boy.

1864 Fraser's Mag. Aug. 210/1 Goldilocks sat on the grass, Tying up of posies rare: Hardly could a sunbeam pass Through the cloud that was her hair.

1875 N. S. Emerson Little Folks' Lett. 25 Howard was the great, big huge bear, and Charlie was the middle sized bear, and I was the little, small wee bear, and baby was to be the goldilocks.

1930 Observer 25 May 15/3 Why is Mr. Max Montesole's Cassio such a quaint goldilocks?

1970 J. Archibald Backcourt Commando vii. 78 The pros call him ‘Goldilocks’ because of his long taffy-colored hair.

2010 Irish News (Nexis) 6 Feb. 2 Flash back 16 years, back when I had a passing look of Goldilocks about me and I do recall being given sterling advice about marriage.

2. Golden hair (typically a girl's or woman's). Also more generally: hair of any colour.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > hair > colour of hair > [noun] > golden

Goldilocks1566

hyacinth1772

1566 J. Studley tr. Seneca Agamemnon iii. F j The soft and gentle goldilocks starte vp of her affright [L. mollis horrescit coma].

1589 J. Rider Bibliotheca Scholastica 668 Goldilockes, or womans haire, which lieth out before over their fore heades, capronæ.

1596 T. Lodge Margarite of Amer. sig. G Hauing her goldilocks tied vp with loose chaines of gold, and Diamondes.

1660 W. Gearing Arraignm. Pride v. 35 Thy goldy locks, and shining hair shall wax gray, and become white, or fall off from thy head.

1715 J. Browne & W. Oldisworth State Tracts II. 42 She..did observe the subtle Fox, Much taken with her goldy Locks.

1864 Fraser's Mag. Aug. 210/2 The playtime she has known, While her goldilocks grew long.

1919 G. M. Reynolds King's Widow ii. 21 ‘You horrid child,’ she grumbled, feeling her goldilocks... ‘You splashed me, and my hair's all damp!’

1965 P. Arrowsmith Jericho xxvi. 294 They're all of them bent—look at that sod's hair. Why don't you snip off your goldilocks, sweetheart?

2010 Canberra Times (Nexis) 28 Aug. a27 Not only do you see her goldilocks flying but her muscles literally rippling across the screen.

a. Any of various, usually yellow-flowered, plants; esp. (a) (more fully goldilocks polytrichon) the common hair moss, Polytrichum commune, which has golden-brown capsules (cf. golden maidenhair n. at golden adj. and n. Compounds 4a); (b) any of several plants with heads of button- or brush-like yellow flowers, belonging esp. to the genera Helichrysum and Filago (family Asteraceae ( Compositae)), spec. the everlasting plant Helichrysum stoechas; †(c) the globeflower Trollius europaeus (obsolete rare).

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > buttercup and allied flowers > allied flowers

githa1382

nigellaa1398

gollana1400

pilewort?a1425

gold-knop1538

fig-wort1548

lucken gowan1548

melanthion1559

gold crap1571

bachelor's buttons1578

celandine1578

gold cup1578

Goldilocks1578

nigel1578

nigelweed1578

troll flower1578

peppergrass1587

golden cup1589

globe crowfoot1597

globeflower1597

winter aconite1597

kiss-me-twice-before-I-rise1664

devil-in-a-bush1722

globe ranunculus1731

turban1760

love-in-a-mist1787

love-in-a-puzzle1824

fair-grass1825

water buttercup1831

golden knobs1835

ficary1848

New Year's gift1856

bishop wort1863

fennel-flower1863

golden ball1875

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. lxxi. 414 We may cal it in English Goldylockes Polytrichon.

1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 521 This Chrysocome, or Floramore (which may be englished Goldilockes, of his golden chaffie, or scalie locks).

1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole xciii. 374 Candy Goldilockes hath two or three small slender white branches, set here and there very scatteringly, with small, long, narrow hoary leaues, hauing yellow heads of flowers at the tops.

a1637 B. Jonson Pans Anniv. 30 in Wks. (1640) III Bring..Faire Oxe-eye, Goldy-locks, and Columbine.

1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 902 Others yet advise to sow Goldilocks [L. chrysocomme] near where they [sc. bees] are.

1761 J. Hill Veg. Syst. III. 127 Wooly Headed Tanzy... Soft Goldilocks. Tanacetum annuum.

1832 J. Hodgson Hist. Northumberland: Pt. II II. 459 The plant which, as a boy, I was taught to call Locken Gowen, or Goudy Locks, is the Trolius europea of Botanists.

1845 Penny Cycl. Suppl. I. 655/2 G[naphalium] Stæchas of Linnæus, Goldilocks, the Helichrysum Stæchas, is mentioned by Theophrastus.

1880 W. Leighton Shakespeare's Dream 52 Stars of the celandine, Blue hyacinths more fine, And goldilocks.

1899 Gardening Illustr. 30 Sept. 395/3 The bright-yellow H[elichrysum] Stæchas..shares with Aster Linosyris the name of Goldilocks.

1913 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 33 209 He refers to a plate showing the plant known in English as Goldilocks.

1999 New Scientist 19 June 53/2 One of the largest species, and the one most commonly planted in Japanese Zen temples, is Polytrichum commune. Shaped like little caps, its gold spore cases have inspired no fewer than three new English names: common haircap, great golden maidenhair and great goldilocks.

b. More fully goldilocks buttercup, wood goldilocks. A woodland buttercup, Ranunculus auricomus, native to Europe and Asia.

ΘΚΠ

butterflower1527

kingcup1538

crow-flower1597

king-cob1597

gilt cup1610

pissabed1640

Goldilocks1650

craysec1652

buttercup1688

yellow cup1824

bulbous buttercup1844

goldballs1854

Meg-many-feet1878

clovewort1886

sitfast1901

1650 W. How Phytologia Britannica 102 Ranunculus auricomus..Goldylocks.

1777 J. Lightfoot Flora Scotica I. 290 [Ranunculus auricomus] Sweet Wood Crowfoot, or Goldilocks. Anglis.

1853 Youth's Instructer & Guardian Jan. 42 R. auricomus L... Wood Goldilocks.

1904 L. C. Miall House, Garden & Field (1905) 299 In the goldilocks buttercup, as well as in the upright and creeping species, the sepals spread horizontally.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1243 Here we may find such herbs as wood-anemone, goldilocks, lesser celandine, red campion, dog-violet [etc.]

1971 R. S. Fitter Finding Wild Flowers 242 Other attractive spring flowers frequent in oakwoods are Bugle, Ground Ivy, Wood Goldilocks, Wood Spurge, Common Dog Violet and Yellow Archangel.

2016 Rye & Battle Observer (Nexis) 14 Oct. She was impressed with the high number of grass species and the ancient woodland indicator plants, especially the Goldilocks, Ranunculus auricomus.

c. More fully †flax-leaved goldilocks, †linear goldilocks, goldilocks aster. A perennial European plant of the family Asteraceae ( Compositae), Galatella linosyris, typically found on limestone outcrops and gravel and having narrow leaves and yellow flowers which often lack ray florets. In early use also: †any plant of the genus Chrysocoma (which formerly included Galatella linosyris, but now comprises only southern African plants) (obsolete).

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1761 J. Hill Veg. Syst. III. 128 Genus III. Goldilocks. Chrysocoma... 1. Linear Goldilocks..Chrysocoma linosyris dicta.

1813 J. E. Smith Eng. Bot. XXXV. 2505 Chrysocoma Linosyris. Flax-leaved Goldy-locks.

1871 W. Sutherland Hardy Herbaceous & Alpine Flowers 165 Linosyris vulgaris, syn. Chrysocoma Linosyris (Goldilocks).

1878 G. Bentham Handbk. Brit. Flora (ed. 4) 239 Aster linosyris. Goldilocks Aster.

1909 F. E. Hulme That Rock-garden of Ours ix. 277 The yellow-flowered plant on Plate XXXVII. is the flax-leaved goldilocks.

2013 A. Davies Walking on Gower xvii. 111 The habitat mosaic supports a rich and beautiful population of flowering plants, six of which are nationally important: hoary rock-rose, goldilocks aster, spiked speedwell, small restharrow, yellow whitlowgrass and nit-grass.

Compounds

C1. attributive. In uses alluding to the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears (see note in etymology).

a. Designating a situation, effect, circumstances, etc., characterized as ideal, esp. in providing the most favourable balance between contrasting or opposing factors, as Goldilocks choice, Goldilocks effect, Goldilocks principle, etc.

ΚΠ

1949 Sewanee Rev. 57 561 The writer may include or leave out too much and so distort his vision. If successful the writer will find that he has made Goldilocks' choice of a gruel neither too hot nor too cold, but just right.

1965 Jrnl. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 60 618 Following these three ‘Goldilocks’ possibilities of discrepancy, we shall attempt to evaluate each of the 1950 SMA's as being either underbounded, truebounded or overbounded with respect to the metropolitan area it is meant to represent.

1978 B. B. Hess & J. M. Waring in R. M. Lerner et al. Child Infl. on Marital & Family Interaction ix. 259 There is also evidence of what can be called a Goldilocks effect, whereby both too many and too few family contacts are perceived as stressful, so that there is a level of ‘just right’.

1988 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 13 Nov. iii a 9/1 The ‘Goldilocks’ scenario..would have the G.N.P. slowing in 1989 to an annual growth rate of 2 to 2.5 percent.

1996 A. Ikwue & J. Skea in R. Welford & R. Starkey Business & Environm. 227 The best justification which has been obtained [for the choice of a tax level of $10 per barrel of oil equivalent] is that ‘$5 was too soft, $20 was too hard’ (the ‘Goldilocks’ principle).

2010 D. F. Bruce et al. Making Baby (rev. ed.) 235 The major problem with fertility drugs is the Goldilocks phenomenon. It is sometimes hard to get it just right!

2015 R. L. Allington et al. in P. D. Pearson & E. H. Hiebert Res.-based Pract. for Teaching Common Core Literacy 164 Students benefit most..when the selected texts offer a modest level of challenge (akin to a Goldilocks effect—not too hard, not too easy).

b. Astronomy. Designating a zone around a star in which conditions are thought to be suitable for planets to support life, being neither too hot nor too cold; designating a planet orbiting within such a zone; of or relating to the existence of such a planet or zone. Esp. in Goldilocks planet, Goldilocks zone.

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1988 New Scientist 7 Jan. 41/1 What planetary scientists call the ‘Goldilocks paradox’... Only Earth developed life. Mars is too cold. Venus is too hot, but Earth is just right, like Goldilocks's porridge.

1989 F. Pearce Turning Up Heat ii. 34 Some planetary scientists have dubbed the Earth the ‘Goldilocks planet’.

1997 Sci. News 1 Mar. 75/1 The body must obey the Goldilocks rule: It must reside within a certain distance of its parent star [etc.].

2003 Guardian (Nexis) 19 June (Science section) 6 Just one little Goldilocks planet orbiting a run-of-the-mill star in a not-very-special galaxy.

2008 K. R. Grazier Sci. of Dune 102 A K1 star, Alpha Centauri B would be both smaller and cooler than Sol, and its Goldilocks Zone both narrower and closer to the parent star.

C2.

Goldilocks economy n. Economics used to describe (the state of) a national economy that is neither expanding too fast nor contracting but displays the ideal conditions of steady growth, low inflation, low interest rates, etc.

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1967 Washington Post 8 Jan. 1/2 ‘What we have here is a “Goldilocks economy”,’ said CEA member James S. Duesenberry the other day. ‘It's not too hot, not too cold, but just right.’

1988 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 13 Nov. 3a 9 For those investors who believe that a Goldilocks economy is possible, stocks and bonds might be a good investment because their value usually goes up during periods of stable economic growth.

2015 P. Hain Back to Future of Socialism ii. 19 Britain appeared to have turned into a ‘Goldilocks economy’, one which had broken free from the cycle of boom and bust and which grew inexorably at a steady pace, with low inflation, low interest rates and record unemployment levels.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	goldilocks
释义	Goldilocksn. Brit. /ˈɡəʊldɪlɒks/, U.S. /ˈɡoʊldiˌlɑks/ Forms: 1500s Goldilocx, 1500s Goldylocx, 1500s–1600s Goldielockes, 1500s–1600s Goldilockes, 1500s–1600s Goldylockes, 1500s–1900s Goldylocks, 1500s– Goldilocks, 1800s– Goldielocks; English regional (northern) 1800s Goudilocks, 1800s Goudylocks; also Scottish pre-1700 Govdelokis. Also (esp. in sense 2) with lower-case initial. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: goldy adj., lock n.¹ Etymology: < goldy adj. + the plural of lock n.¹Goldilocks and the Three Bears. In most versions of the folk tale of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Goldilocks enters the house of the bears and successively tries and rejects the food, chairs, and beds of the mother and father bears, before declaring in each case that only that of the baby bear is ‘just right’. The first known publication of the story in which the character has the name Goldilocks (rather than equivalents such as Golden Hair in some earlier versions) is in Old Nursery Stories & Rhymes (c1904), although see quot. 1875 at sense 1 for earlier association of goldilocks with this tale. Specific senses. In use with reference to plants (see sense 3) partly after classical Latin chrȳsocomē (Pliny) and its etymon Hellenistic Greek χρυσοκόμη. Compare the following earlier use as an etymologizing gloss of the Greek noun:1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 47^v Ivpiters Beard, called of the Greekes Chrysokome, as you would say Goldilocks. It is hairie like Isope. In sense 3b after classical Latin auricomus (see auricomous adj.) in its post-classical Latin and scientific Latin use in plant names (17th cent. or earlier designating a species of buttercup). In early use in sense 3c after scientific Latin Chrysocoma, genus name ( Linnaeus Species plantarum (1753) II. 840; originally including Galatella linosyris). 1. (A nickname for) a person who has golden hair.In later use, often with reference or allusion to the folk tale of Goldilocks and the Three Bears (see note in etymology). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > colour of hair > [noun] > golden > person having Goldilocks1549 1549 in W. Cramond Rec. Elgin (1903) I. 99 Muerell Govre, govdelokis. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iv. 128 Pure goldie-lockes Sol, States-friend, [etc.]. 1615 E. Hoby Curry-combe i. 49 To set out the picture like a Goldylocks, with Rebatoes, red Sattin Petticotes, and loose Gownes. 1664 C. Cotton Scarronides 98 My Goldylocks, (quoth she) my Joy, My pretty, little-tyny-Boy. 1864 Fraser's Mag. Aug. 210/1 Goldilocks sat on the grass, Tying up of posies rare: Hardly could a sunbeam pass Through the cloud that was her hair. 1875 N. S. Emerson Little Folks' Lett. 25 Howard was the great, big huge bear, and Charlie was the middle sized bear, and I was the little, small wee bear, and baby was to be the goldilocks. 1930 Observer 25 May 15/3 Why is Mr. Max Montesole's Cassio such a quaint goldilocks? 1970 J. Archibald Backcourt Commando vii. 78 The pros call him ‘Goldilocks’ because of his long taffy-colored hair. 2010 Irish News (Nexis) 6 Feb. 2 Flash back 16 years, back when I had a passing look of Goldilocks about me and I do recall being given sterling advice about marriage. 2. Golden hair (typically a girl's or woman's). Also more generally: hair of any colour. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > colour of hair > [noun] > golden Goldilocks1566 hyacinth1772 1566 J. Studley tr. Seneca Agamemnon iii. F j The soft and gentle goldilocks starte vp of her affright [L. mollis horrescit coma]. 1589 J. Rider Bibliotheca Scholastica 668 Goldilockes, or womans haire, which lieth out before over their fore heades, capronæ. 1596 T. Lodge Margarite of Amer. sig. G Hauing her goldilocks tied vp with loose chaines of gold, and Diamondes. 1660 W. Gearing Arraignm. Pride v. 35 Thy goldy locks, and shining hair shall wax gray, and become white, or fall off from thy head. 1715 J. Browne & W. Oldisworth State Tracts II. 42 She..did observe the subtle Fox, Much taken with her goldy Locks. 1864 Fraser's Mag. Aug. 210/2 The playtime she has known, While her goldilocks grew long. 1919 G. M. Reynolds King's Widow ii. 21 ‘You horrid child,’ she grumbled, feeling her goldilocks... ‘You splashed me, and my hair's all damp!’ 1965 P. Arrowsmith Jericho xxvi. 294 They're all of them bent—look at that sod's hair. Why don't you snip off your goldilocks, sweetheart? 2010 Canberra Times (Nexis) 28 Aug. a27 Not only do you see her goldilocks flying but her muscles literally rippling across the screen. 3. a. Any of various, usually yellow-flowered, plants; esp. (a) (more fully goldilocks polytrichon) the common hair moss, Polytrichum commune, which has golden-brown capsules (cf. golden maidenhair n. at golden adj. and n. Compounds 4a); (b) any of several plants with heads of button- or brush-like yellow flowers, belonging esp. to the genera Helichrysum and Filago (family Asteraceae ( Compositae)), spec. the everlasting plant Helichrysum stoechas; †(c) the globeflower Trollius europaeus (obsolete rare). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > buttercup and allied flowers > allied flowers githa1382 nigellaa1398 gollana1400 pilewort?a1425 gold-knop1538 fig-wort1548 lucken gowan1548 melanthion1559 gold crap1571 bachelor's buttons1578 celandine1578 gold cup1578 Goldilocks1578 nigel1578 nigelweed1578 troll flower1578 peppergrass1587 golden cup1589 globe crowfoot1597 globeflower1597 winter aconite1597 kiss-me-twice-before-I-rise1664 devil-in-a-bush1722 globe ranunculus1731 turban1760 love-in-a-mist1787 love-in-a-puzzle1824 fair-grass1825 water buttercup1831 golden knobs1835 ficary1848 New Year's gift1856 bishop wort1863 fennel-flower1863 golden ball1875 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. lxxi. 414 We may cal it in English Goldylockes Polytrichon. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 521 This Chrysocome, or Floramore (which may be englished Goldilockes, of his golden chaffie, or scalie locks). 1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole xciii. 374 Candy Goldilockes hath two or three small slender white branches, set here and there very scatteringly, with small, long, narrow hoary leaues, hauing yellow heads of flowers at the tops. a1637 B. Jonson Pans Anniv. 30 in Wks. (1640) III Bring..Faire Oxe-eye, Goldy-locks, and Columbine. 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 902 Others yet advise to sow Goldilocks [L. chrysocomme] near where they [sc. bees] are. 1761 J. Hill Veg. Syst. III. 127 Wooly Headed Tanzy... Soft Goldilocks. Tanacetum annuum. 1832 J. Hodgson Hist. Northumberland: Pt. II II. 459 The plant which, as a boy, I was taught to call Locken Gowen, or Goudy Locks, is the Trolius europea of Botanists. 1845 Penny Cycl. Suppl. I. 655/2 G[naphalium] Stæchas of Linnæus, Goldilocks, the Helichrysum Stæchas, is mentioned by Theophrastus. 1880 W. Leighton Shakespeare's Dream 52 Stars of the celandine, Blue hyacinths more fine, And goldilocks. 1899 Gardening Illustr. 30 Sept. 395/3 The bright-yellow H[elichrysum] Stæchas..shares with Aster Linosyris the name of Goldilocks. 1913 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 33 209 He refers to a plate showing the plant known in English as Goldilocks. 1999 New Scientist 19 June 53/2 One of the largest species, and the one most commonly planted in Japanese Zen temples, is Polytrichum commune. Shaped like little caps, its gold spore cases have inspired no fewer than three new English names: common haircap, great golden maidenhair and great goldilocks. b. More fully goldilocks buttercup, wood goldilocks. A woodland buttercup, Ranunculus auricomus, native to Europe and Asia. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > buttercup and allied flowers > buttercup butterflower1527 kingcup1538 crow-flower1597 king-cob1597 gilt cup1610 pissabed1640 Goldilocks1650 craysec1652 buttercup1688 yellow cup1824 bulbous buttercup1844 goldballs1854 Meg-many-feet1878 clovewort1886 sitfast1901 1650 W. How Phytologia Britannica 102 Ranunculus auricomus..Goldylocks. 1777 J. Lightfoot Flora Scotica I. 290 [Ranunculus auricomus] Sweet Wood Crowfoot, or Goldilocks. Anglis. 1853 Youth's Instructer & Guardian Jan. 42 R. auricomus L... Wood Goldilocks. 1904 L. C. Miall House, Garden & Field (1905) 299 In the goldilocks buttercup, as well as in the upright and creeping species, the sepals spread horizontally. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1243 Here we may find such herbs as wood-anemone, goldilocks, lesser celandine, red campion, dog-violet [etc.] 1971 R. S. Fitter Finding Wild Flowers 242 Other attractive spring flowers frequent in oakwoods are Bugle, Ground Ivy, Wood Goldilocks, Wood Spurge, Common Dog Violet and Yellow Archangel. 2016 Rye & Battle Observer (Nexis) 14 Oct. She was impressed with the high number of grass species and the ancient woodland indicator plants, especially the Goldilocks, Ranunculus auricomus. c. More fully †flax-leaved goldilocks, †linear goldilocks, goldilocks aster. A perennial European plant of the family Asteraceae ( Compositae), Galatella linosyris, typically found on limestone outcrops and gravel and having narrow leaves and yellow flowers which often lack ray florets. In early use also: †any plant of the genus Chrysocoma (which formerly included Galatella linosyris, but now comprises only southern African plants) (obsolete). ΚΠ 1761 J. Hill Veg. Syst. III. 128 Genus III. Goldilocks. Chrysocoma... 1. Linear Goldilocks..Chrysocoma linosyris dicta. 1813 J. E. Smith Eng. Bot. XXXV. 2505 Chrysocoma Linosyris. Flax-leaved Goldy-locks. 1871 W. Sutherland Hardy Herbaceous & Alpine Flowers 165 Linosyris vulgaris, syn. Chrysocoma Linosyris (Goldilocks). 1878 G. Bentham Handbk. Brit. Flora (ed. 4) 239 Aster linosyris. Goldilocks Aster. 1909 F. E. Hulme That Rock-garden of Ours ix. 277 The yellow-flowered plant on Plate XXXVII. is the flax-leaved goldilocks. 2013 A. Davies Walking on Gower xvii. 111 The habitat mosaic supports a rich and beautiful population of flowering plants, six of which are nationally important: hoary rock-rose, goldilocks aster, spiked speedwell, small restharrow, yellow whitlowgrass and nit-grass. Compounds C1. attributive. In uses alluding to the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears (see note in etymology). a. Designating a situation, effect, circumstances, etc., characterized as ideal, esp. in providing the most favourable balance between contrasting or opposing factors, as Goldilocks choice, Goldilocks effect, Goldilocks principle, etc. ΚΠ 1949 Sewanee Rev. 57 561 The writer may include or leave out too much and so distort his vision. If successful the writer will find that he has made Goldilocks' choice of a gruel neither too hot nor too cold, but just right. 1965 Jrnl. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 60 618 Following these three ‘Goldilocks’ possibilities of discrepancy, we shall attempt to evaluate each of the 1950 SMA's as being either underbounded, truebounded or overbounded with respect to the metropolitan area it is meant to represent. 1978 B. B. Hess & J. M. Waring in R. M. Lerner et al. Child Infl. on Marital & Family Interaction ix. 259 There is also evidence of what can be called a Goldilocks effect, whereby both too many and too few family contacts are perceived as stressful, so that there is a level of ‘just right’. 1988 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 13 Nov. iii a 9/1 The ‘Goldilocks’ scenario..would have the G.N.P. slowing in 1989 to an annual growth rate of 2 to 2.5 percent. 1996 A. Ikwue & J. Skea in R. Welford & R. Starkey Business & Environm. 227 The best justification which has been obtained [for the choice of a tax level of $10 per barrel of oil equivalent] is that ‘$5 was too soft, $20 was too hard’ (the ‘Goldilocks’ principle). 2010 D. F. Bruce et al. Making Baby (rev. ed.) 235 The major problem with fertility drugs is the Goldilocks phenomenon. It is sometimes hard to get it just right! 2015 R. L. Allington et al. in P. D. Pearson & E. H. Hiebert Res.-based Pract. for Teaching Common Core Literacy 164 Students benefit most..when the selected texts offer a modest level of challenge (akin to a Goldilocks effect—not too hard, not too easy). b. Astronomy. Designating a zone around a star in which conditions are thought to be suitable for planets to support life, being neither too hot nor too cold; designating a planet orbiting within such a zone; of or relating to the existence of such a planet or zone. Esp. in Goldilocks planet, Goldilocks zone. ΚΠ 1988 New Scientist 7 Jan. 41/1 What planetary scientists call the ‘Goldilocks paradox’... Only Earth developed life. Mars is too cold. Venus is too hot, but Earth is just right, like Goldilocks's porridge. 1989 F. Pearce Turning Up Heat ii. 34 Some planetary scientists have dubbed the Earth the ‘Goldilocks planet’. 1997 Sci. News 1 Mar. 75/1 The body must obey the Goldilocks rule: It must reside within a certain distance of its parent star [etc.]. 2003 Guardian (Nexis) 19 June (Science section) 6 Just one little Goldilocks planet orbiting a run-of-the-mill star in a not-very-special galaxy. 2008 K. R. Grazier Sci. of Dune 102 A K1 star, Alpha Centauri B would be both smaller and cooler than Sol, and its Goldilocks Zone both narrower and closer to the parent star. C2. Goldilocks economy n. Economics used to describe (the state of) a national economy that is neither expanding too fast nor contracting but displays the ideal conditions of steady growth, low inflation, low interest rates, etc. ΚΠ 1967 Washington Post 8 Jan. 1/2 ‘What we have here is a “Goldilocks economy”,’ said CEA member James S. Duesenberry the other day. ‘It's not too hot, not too cold, but just right.’ 1988 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 13 Nov. 3a 9 For those investors who believe that a Goldilocks economy is possible, stocks and bonds might be a good investment because their value usually goes up during periods of stable economic growth. 2015 P. Hain Back to Future of Socialism ii. 19 Britain appeared to have turned into a ‘Goldilocks economy’, one which had broken free from the cycle of boom and bust and which grew inexorably at a steady pace, with low inflation, low interest rates and record unemployment levels. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1549
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