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单词 goody-goody
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goody-goodyn.1

Brit. /ˈɡʊdɪˌɡʊdi/, U.S. /ˈɡʊdiˌɡʊdi/
Forms: 1700s goody-goodyes (plural), 1700s– goody-goody, 1800s goodie-goodies (plural).
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymon: goody n.3
Etymology: Reduplication of goody n.3
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

Brit. /ˈɡʊdɪˌɡʊdi/, /ˌɡʊdɪˈɡʊdi/, U.S. /ˈɡʊdiˌɡʊdi/, /ˌɡʊdiˈɡʊdi/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymon: goody adj.
Etymology: Reduplication of goody adj. With the use as noun compare earlier goody n.4, goody-good n., goody-two-shoes n.
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).
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