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First published 1956 (SND Vol. IV).
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GOODY-GOOD, adj.comb. = Eng. goody-goody, weakly or sentimentally pious (Ags.¹⁹ 1954).Sc. 1851 Carlyle Life J. Sterling ii. v.:
We found the piece monotonous . . . dallying on the borders of the infantile and “goody-good.”Rnf. 1873 D. Gilmour Pen' Folk 52:
I did not, as goody-good people may think I should have done, mourn over the uncertainty . . . of life . . . and “improve the occasion” thereby.