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Goody-goody   Listen
noun
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.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Goody-goody" Quotes from Famous Books



... least bit of good,' said Tim. 'Every blackguard in the country is enlisted already in the Connaught Bangers or the Dublin Fusiliers, or some confounded Militia regiment. There's nobody left but the nice, respectable, goody-goody boys who wouldn't leave their mothers or miss going to confession if you went down on your knees ...
— Hyacinth - 1906 • George A. Birmingham

... much," he told himself. "She's crazy about these wild pranks and she thinks I'm a stupid goody-goody. What a fool I was to try to ...
— The Perils of Pauline • Charles Goddard

... superintendent pored over the books, and pretended to forget he was a prisoner. They took down only the topmost shutters. Some of the clerks got out a pack of cards, and asked Job to take a hand. One said contemptuously, "Oh, you're a goody-goody, parson!" when he refused, but the others quickly silenced him in a way that showed their respect for Job. The cards dropped from their hands before long, and each seemed occupied with his own thoughts. Twice during the day "the gang" and O'Donnell presented themselves at ...
— The Transformation of Job - A Tale of the High Sierras • Frederick Vining Fisher



Words linked to "Goody-goody" :   crawler, toady, ass-kisser, lackey, good



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