Good-wooled, adj. phr. (American).—Of unflinching courage; of the greatest merit; thoroughly dependable.
1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v.
Goody, subs. (popular).—1. A matron: the correllative of goodman = husband. (Used like auntie, and mother, and gammer, in addressing or describing an inferior.) (A corruption of good-wife).
1598. Florio, A Worlde of Wordes. Mona, … Also a nickname for women as we say gammer, goodie, goodwife, such a one.
1689. Accts. of the Churchwardens of Sprowston. Paid goody Crabbin for washing the surplis and church powrch, 1s. 3d.
d. 1732. Gay. Swarm’d on a rotten stick the bees I spy’d Which erst I saw when goody Dopon dy’d.
d. 1745. Swift. Plain goody would no longer down: ’Twas Madam in her grogram gown.
1802. Bloomfield, Rural Tales, ‘Richard and Kate.’ Come, Goody, stop your humdrum wheel.
1816. Johnson, Eng. Dict. s.v. A low term of civility used to mean persons.
1837. Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, ‘The Witches’ Frolic.’ Old Goody Price, Had got something nice.