Meaning of GOODY-GOODY
| Pronunciation: | | 'gûdee'gûdee
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- [n] a person who behaves extremely well in order to please a superior
- [adj] affectedly or smugly good or self-righteous
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| | Synonyms: | | good |
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| | See Also: | | crawler, lackey, sycophant, toady | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Good"y-good`y\, a.
Mawkishly or weakly good; exhibiting goodness with silliness.
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| | Related Terms: | | affected, bluenose, canting, chicken, cream puff, effeminate, elegant, euphemistic, euphuistic, exquisite, false, formalistic, goody, goody good-good, holier-than-thou, hypocritic, hypocritical, insincere, lily, Lord Fauntleroy, mealymouthed, mid-Victorian, milksop, mincing, mollycoddle, namby-pamby, nance, nancy, oily, old maid, old woman, overnice, overprecise, overrefined, pantywaist, Pecksniffian, pedantic, Percy, pharisaic, pharisean, pietistic, pious, precieuse, precious, precisian, precisianistic, precisionistic, prig, prude, puristic, puritan, sanctified, sanctimonious, self-righteous, simon-pure, simpering, sissy, sniveling, Tartuffian, Tartuffish, unctuous, Victorian, weak sister |
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