Adj. (colloquial).—Well-meaning but petty; officiously pious. Also goody-goody.
1864. D. W. Thompson, Daydreams of a Schoolmaster, p. 230. I would rather they were not too good; or goody. Let us have a little naughtiness, sprinkled in at intervals.
1892. S. Watson, Wops the Waif, p. 7. He knew well enough the whole of this enterprise had sprung from a goody-goody idea of ‘doing something,’ born of impulse and whim.
Goodyear, subs. (old).—The pox. (A corruption of gougeer, from gouge = a soldier’s trull). For synonyms, see Ladies’ Fever.
1605. Shakspeare, Lear, v., 3. The goodyears shall devour them. [[181]]
Gook, subs. (American).—A low prostitute. For synonyms, see Barrack Hack and Tart.
Goose, subs. (common).—1. A tailor’s smoothing iron. (Whose handle is shaped like the neck of the bird.) Hence the old ditton, ‘A taylor be he ever so poor is sure to have a goose at his fire.’—Grose. Fr., un gendarme.
1606. Shakspeare, Macbeth, ii., 3. Come in, taylor; here you may roast your goose.
1606. Dekker, Newes from Hell, in Wks. (Grosart) ii., 114. Every man being armed with his sheeres and pressing Iron, which he calls there his goose.
1638. Randolph, Hey for Honesty. … Tailor. Oh! it is an age that, like the Ostrich, makes me feed on my own goose.