Goody-goody

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Goody \Good"y\, a.
     Weakly or sentimentally good; affectedly good; -- often in
     the reduplicated form {goody-goody}. [Colloq.]
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Goody-goody \Good"y-good`y\, a.
     Mawkishly or weakly good; exhibiting goodness with silliness.
     [Colloq.]
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  goody-goody \good"y-good"y\, 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.]
     [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  goody-goody
       adj : affectedly or smugly good or self-righteous
       n : a person who behaves extremely well in order to please a
           superior