1884. Saturday Review, 2 Aug., p. 147, c. 2. The Goodwood Stakes was considered a good thing for Florence, who has proved herself to be an extraordinary mare. 1888. Sporting Life, 10 Dec. In a field of four, Livingstone, who was voted a good thing, was served up a warm favourite. 1891. Daily Telegraph, 21 Mar. It had been generally anticipated that this was a good thing for Oxford. 1892. Ally Sloper, 19 Mar., p. 90, c. 3. That them as trades in rags and bones Makes more than them as writes good things. Good Time, subs. phr. (old).—A carouse; a friendly gathering; an enjoyable bout at anything. To have a good time, verb. phr. (old).—To be fortunate or lucky; to enjoy oneself; to make merry. See Cocum. 1596. Jonson, Every Man in His Humour, i., 2. As not ten housewives pewter, again a good time, shews more bright to the world than he! [= some festival, ‘when housewives are careful to set out their furniture to the best advantage.’—Note by Whalley, given in Cunningham’s Gifford’s Jonson (1870)]. 1863. A. Trollope, Rachel Ray, ii., 6., 109. Eating cake and drinking currant wine, but not having, on the whole, what our American friends call a good time of it. 1864. Yates, Broken to Harness, ch. xxxviii. And what have you been doing? Had a good time? 1883. Bret Harte, In the Carquinez Woods, ch. ix. But we must keep it dark until after I marry Nellie, don’t you see. Then we’ll have a good time all round, and I’ll stand the drinks. 1892. R. L. Stevenson and L. Osbourne, The Wrecker, p. 14. My idea of man’s chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so. Good ’un, subs. phr. (colloquial).—1. A man, woman, or thing of decided and undoubted merit. Cf., Good-girl. 1828–45. T. Hood, Poems, vi., p. 254 [ed. 1846]. A good ’un to look at but bad to go. 1854. Martin and Aytoun, Bon Gaultier Ballads. ‘The Dirge of a Drinker.’ Like a good ’un as he is. 1891. N. Gould, Double Event, p. 160. He’s a real good un, and when his party plank the stuff down it’s generally a moral. 2. (colloquial).—An expression of derisive unbelief: e.g., a lie. See Whopper. Good-wooled, adj. phr. (American).—Of unflinching courage; of the greatest merit; thoroughly dependable. 1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v. Goody, subs. (popular).—1. A matron: the correllative of goodman = husband. (Used like auntie, and mother, and gammer, in addressing or describing an inferior.) (A corruption of good-wife). 1598. Florio, A Worlde of Wordes. Mona, ... Also a nickname for women as we say gammer, goodie, goodwife, such a one. 1689. Accts. of the Churchwardens of Sprowston. Paid goody Crabbin for washing the surplis and church powrch, 1s. 3d. d. 1732. Gay. Swarm’d on a rotten stick the bees I spy’d Which erst I saw when goody Dopon dy’d.