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Goody-goody   Listen
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goody-goody  n.  A person who is weakly, sentimentally, or affectedly good; a goody-goody person; sometimes used to refer to person who acts with good intentions but who bunglingly does more harm than good. The latter may sometimes be deprecatingly referred to as a goo-goo. (Colloq.)






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"Goody-goody" Quotes from Famous Books



... fond of his cousin, but he did like to tease her, and once in the fall, before they came to stay in the barn, he called her a "goody-goody" because she wouldn't jump the fence and run away with him. He said she wouldn't do such things because she didn't know what fun was. Then she did show that she had a temper, for her brown eyes snapped and her soft lips were raised until she showed all her biting teeth. "I'm not a 'goody-goody,'" ...
— Among the Farmyard People • Clara Dillingham Pierson



Words linked to "Goody-goody" :   good, crawler, toady, sycophant



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