goody-two-shoesn.adj.

Brit.

/ˌɡʊdɪˈtuːʃuːz/, U.S.

/ˌɡʊdiˈtuˌʃuz/

Forms: See goody n.¹ and two adj., n., and adv. and shoe n. Also with capital initials.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: goody n.¹, two adj., English shoes , shoe n.

Etymology: < goody n.¹ + two adj. + shoes, plural of shoe n. (compare quot. 1765 at sense A. 2a and the note at that sense). Compare earlier goodman two-shoes n. at goodman n. Compounds.Later use is influenced by goody adj., the first element apparently being apprehended as the adjective rather than the noun. In occasional forms with reduplication of the first element (e.g. quot. 1998 at sense B.) influenced by goody-goody n.²

Now depreciative.

A. n.

†1. Somewhat depreciative. A title for, or form of address to, a woman, suggesting that she is of lower social status or has the manners, taste, or opinions supposedly typical of the lower classes. Cf. goodman two-shoes n. at goodman n. Compounds. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

a1687 C. Cotton Voy. Irel. in Poems Several Occasions (1689) ii. 184 Why, what then; Goody two-shoes, what if it be? Hold you, if you can, your tittle-tattle, quoth he.

a. Originally allusively. A name or nickname for: a person, typically a girl or young woman, who resembles the character of Goody Two-shoes (see note), esp. in being dutiful and well-behaved. In later use usually with negative implications (cf. sense A. 2b). Cf. Two-shoes n. at two adj., n., and adv. Compounds 2.Goody Two-shoes was the nickname given to the heroine of Hist. Little Goody Two-shoes (see quot. 1765), a popular children's story in which Margery Meanwell, an orphan girl, triumphs over adversity through her own unwavering virtue and hard work to become a teacher and marry a rich man, using her new-found wealth to help the poor and do good works.In quot. 1893 probably with allusion to goody n.¹ 2.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [noun] > nickname or additional name > specific

sixpence1600

goody-two-shoes1785

stupid1790

stupe1855

brain1865

1765 Hist. Little Goody Two-shoes i. iii. 21 Nothing could have supported Little Margery under the Affliction she was in for the Loss of her Brother, but the Pleasure she took in her two Shoes. She ran out to Mrs. Smith as soon as they were put on, and..cried out, ‘Two Shoes, Mame, see two Shoes.’ And so she behaved to all the People she met, and by that Means obtained the Name of Goody Two Shoes.]

1785 Second Thoughts on Present Ministry 41 Lady Ed...st..e. Goody Two-Shoes. Well educated, we warrant! So dutiful and well-behaved.

1788 Royal Magnificence 47 For this fat loyal junk of all the year, Our Goody Two-Shoes dropt the parting tear.

1828 C. I. Johnstone Diversions of Hollycot vii. 170 How is Goody Two-shoes so rich always?

1893 Echo of Seneca (Hobart Coll., N.Y.) 32 101 No word of idle gossip from Goody-Two-Shoes, who comes up and builds the beds.

1914 Cosmopolitan Nov. 820/1 When he had occasion to address Phyllis directly, he no longer called her Miss Darling, but ‘Goody Two Shoes’.

1982 H. J. Rosta In Blood 112 Still, it's easy for me to play Goody Two-Shoes when I know that tomorrow I can drive away.

1990 M. Leigh Life is Sweet in Naked & Other Screenplays (1995) 110 Wendy: Are you eatin' yours, missis? Nicola: What's it to you?.. Natalie: She cooked it, that's what it is to 'er. Nicola: Oh, shut up, Goody Two-Shoes!

b. A person who is always perfectly well-behaved (in later use frequently with the implication of a degree of smugness, or disapproval of the behaviour of others); a goody-goody.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > [noun] > good manners or polite behaviour > person or persons

Sunday citizen1598

well-mannered1757

goody-two-shoes1843

couth1963

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

1843 Christian Remembrancer Jan. 27 Supposing all the eighteen hundred Phalansterians to be Goody-two-Shoes of the very first water.

1876 Quiver 13 399/1 You, poor little soul, are a goody two-shoes, a prim, proper, contented sort of person!

1962 Ebony Feb. 112/2 ‘I'm not a do-gooder or a Goody Two-Shoes,’ he says.

1987 K. Lette Girls' Night Out (1989) 184 No point asking you, ya goody-two-shoes. You're always in control. Nothing shitty ever happens to you.

1999 S. Perera Haven't stopped dancing Yet x. 129 ‘Do you have to swear every other word?’ ‘Do you have to be such a stuck-up goody two shoes?’ We carried on in silence.

2011 N.Y. Mag. 8 Aug. 64/1 I'm such a goody two-shoes. I don't like being late!

B. adj.

Resembling or characteristic of the character of Goody Two-shoes (see sense A. 2a); (now more generally) always perfectly well-behaved (frequently with the implication of a degree of smugness, or disapproval of the behaviour of others); relating to or characteristic of a person behaving in this manner. Usually depreciative.Occasionally with the first element reduplicated; cf. goody-goody adj.

ΚΠ

1818 S. E. Ferrier Marriage II. xvi. 217 As for your amiable, dutiful, virtuous Goody Two-Shoes characters, I detest them.

1889 Globe (Philadelphia) Oct. 90 Its editorials are and long have been noted for their goody-two-shoes sort of on-both-sides-of-the-fence moralizing.

1924 Los Angeles Times 30 May 9 Hollywood bugs brook no Goody-Two-Shoes bouts.

1990 B. D'Amato Hardball (1991) iii.18 I didn't believe she could be as Goody Twoshoes as she sounded.

1998 D. Whitley Grange Hill (BBC TV script, 3rd draft) (O.E.D. Archive) 21st Ser. Episode 4. 51 Pigging hell, just leave off can't you, you sanctimonious goodie goodie two shoes Samaritan piece of..prissy..pretty..stupid.

2009 Independent 30 Nov. 3/1 A frenzy of media speculation that threatens this goodie-two-shoes image.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	goody-two-shoes
释义	goody-two-shoesn.adj. Brit. /ˌɡʊdɪˈtuːʃuːz/, U.S. /ˌɡʊdiˈtuˌʃuz/ Forms: See goody n.¹ and two adj., n., and adv. and shoe n. Also with capital initials. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: goody n.¹, two adj., English shoes , shoe n. Etymology: < goody n.¹ + two adj. + shoes, plural of shoe n. (compare quot. 1765 at sense A. 2a and the note at that sense). Compare earlier goodman two-shoes n. at goodman n. Compounds.Later use is influenced by goody adj., the first element apparently being apprehended as the adjective rather than the noun. In occasional forms with reduplication of the first element (e.g. quot. 1998 at sense B.) influenced by goody-goody n.² Now depreciative. A. n. †1. Somewhat depreciative. A title for, or form of address to, a woman, suggesting that she is of lower social status or has the manners, taste, or opinions supposedly typical of the lower classes. Cf. goodman two-shoes n. at goodman n. Compounds. Obsolete. ΚΠ a1687 C. Cotton Voy. Irel. in Poems Several Occasions (1689) ii. 184 Why, what then; Goody two-shoes, what if it be? Hold you, if you can, your tittle-tattle, quoth he. 2. a. Originally allusively. A name or nickname for: a person, typically a girl or young woman, who resembles the character of Goody Two-shoes (see note), esp. in being dutiful and well-behaved. In later use usually with negative implications (cf. sense A. 2b). Cf. Two-shoes n. at two adj., n., and adv. Compounds 2.Goody Two-shoes was the nickname given to the heroine of Hist. Little Goody Two-shoes (see quot. 1765), a popular children's story in which Margery Meanwell, an orphan girl, triumphs over adversity through her own unwavering virtue and hard work to become a teacher and marry a rich man, using her new-found wealth to help the poor and do good works.In quot. 1893 probably with allusion to goody n.¹ 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [noun] > nickname or additional name > specific sixpence1600 goody-two-shoes1785 stupid1790 stupe1855 brain1865 1765 Hist. Little Goody Two-shoes i. iii. 21 Nothing could have supported Little Margery under the Affliction she was in for the Loss of her Brother, but the Pleasure she took in her two Shoes. She ran out to Mrs. Smith as soon as they were put on, and..cried out, ‘Two Shoes, Mame, see two Shoes.’ And so she behaved to all the People she met, and by that Means obtained the Name of Goody Two Shoes.] 1785 Second Thoughts on Present Ministry 41 Lady Ed...st..e. Goody Two-Shoes. Well educated, we warrant! So dutiful and well-behaved. 1788 Royal Magnificence 47 For this fat loyal junk of all the year, Our Goody Two-Shoes dropt the parting tear. 1828 C. I. Johnstone Diversions of Hollycot vii. 170 How is Goody Two-shoes so rich always? 1893 Echo of Seneca (Hobart Coll., N.Y.) 32 101 No word of idle gossip from Goody-Two-Shoes, who comes up and builds the beds. 1914 Cosmopolitan Nov. 820/1 When he had occasion to address Phyllis directly, he no longer called her Miss Darling, but ‘Goody Two Shoes’. 1982 H. J. Rosta In Blood 112 Still, it's easy for me to play Goody Two-Shoes when I know that tomorrow I can drive away. 1990 M. Leigh Life is Sweet in Naked & Other Screenplays (1995) 110 Wendy: Are you eatin' yours, missis? Nicola: What's it to you?.. Natalie: She cooked it, that's what it is to 'er. Nicola: Oh, shut up, Goody Two-Shoes! b. A person who is always perfectly well-behaved (in later use frequently with the implication of a degree of smugness, or disapproval of the behaviour of others); a goody-goody. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > [noun] > good manners or polite behaviour > person or persons Sunday citizen1598 well-mannered1757 goody-two-shoes1843 couth1963 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 1843 Christian Remembrancer Jan. 27 Supposing all the eighteen hundred Phalansterians to be Goody-two-Shoes of the very first water. 1876 Quiver 13 399/1 You, poor little soul, are a goody two-shoes, a prim, proper, contented sort of person! 1962 Ebony Feb. 112/2 ‘I'm not a do-gooder or a Goody Two-Shoes,’ he says. 1987 K. Lette Girls' Night Out (1989) 184 No point asking you, ya goody-two-shoes. You're always in control. Nothing shitty ever happens to you. 1999 S. Perera Haven't stopped dancing Yet x. 129 ‘Do you have to swear every other word?’ ‘Do you have to be such a stuck-up goody two shoes?’ We carried on in silence. 2011 N.Y. Mag. 8 Aug. 64/1 I'm such a goody two-shoes. I don't like being late! B. adj. Resembling or characteristic of the character of Goody Two-shoes (see sense A. 2a); (now more generally) always perfectly well-behaved (frequently with the implication of a degree of smugness, or disapproval of the behaviour of others); relating to or characteristic of a person behaving in this manner. Usually depreciative.Occasionally with the first element reduplicated; cf. goody-goody adj. ΚΠ 1818 S. E. Ferrier Marriage II. xvi. 217 As for your amiable, dutiful, virtuous Goody Two-Shoes characters, I detest them. 1889 Globe (Philadelphia) Oct. 90 Its editorials are and long have been noted for their goody-two-shoes sort of on-both-sides-of-the-fence moralizing. 1924 Los Angeles Times 30 May 9 Hollywood bugs brook no Goody-Two-Shoes bouts. 1990 B. D'Amato Hardball (1991) iii.18 I didn't believe she could be as Goody Twoshoes as she sounded. 1998 D. Whitley Grange Hill (BBC TV script, 3rd draft) (O.E.D. Archive) 21st Ser. Episode 4. 51 Pigging hell, just leave off can't you, you sanctimonious goodie goodie two shoes Samaritan piece of..prissy..pretty..stupid. 2009 Independent 30 Nov. 3/1 A frenzy of media speculation that threatens this goodie-two-shoes image. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.a1687
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