d. 1745. Swift. Plain goody would no longer down: ’Twas Madam in her grogram gown. 1802. Bloomfield, Rural Tales, ‘Richard and Kate.’ Come, Goody, stop your humdrum wheel. 1816. Johnson, Eng. Dict. s.v. A low term of civility used to mean persons. 1837. Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, ‘The Witches’ Frolic.’ Old Goody Price, Had got something nice. Hence Goodyship = ‘ladyship.’ 1663. Butler, Hudibras, pt. 1, c. 3. The more shame for her goodyship, To give so near a friend the slip. 2. (colloquial).—A religious hypocrite, male or female; the ‘unco guid’ of Burns. 1836. Kidd, London Ambulator, p. 14. Clapham is celebrated for goodies—ladies of a certain age, who not having succeeded in finessing for husbands, betake themselves to a religious life as a dernier resort. Hence goody-goodyism = sentimental piety. 1892. Pall Mall Gaz., 23 Nov., p. 3., c. 1. The Christmas tale of adventure ... has perhaps cast off its element of goody-goodyism, but the general features and cast are as of old. 3. generally in. pl. (colloquial).—Sweetmeats; bon-bons; cakes and buns. 1853. Mayhew, Letters Left at a Pastrycook’s. Propped up on each side with bags of oranges, cakes, and goodies. 1855. H. A. Murray, Lands of the Slave and the Free, ch. xii. Adjourning from time to time to some café for the purpose of eating ices or sucking goodies. 4. (American).—The kernel of a nut. Adj. (colloquial).—Well-meaning but petty; officiously pious. Also goody-goody. 1864. D. W. Thompson, Daydreams of a Schoolmaster, p. 230. I would rather they were not too good; or goody. Let us have a little naughtiness, sprinkled in at intervals. 1892. S. Watson, Wops the Waif, p. 7. He knew well enough the whole of this enterprise had sprung from a goody-goody idea of ‘doing something,’ born of impulse and whim. Goodyear, subs. (old).—The pox. (A corruption of gougeer, from gouge = a soldier’s trull). For synonyms, see Ladies’ Fever. 1605. Shakspeare, Lear, v., 3. The goodyears shall devour them. Gook, subs. (American).—A low prostitute. For synonyms, see Barrack Hack and Tart. Goose, subs. (common).—1. A tailor’s smoothing iron. (Whose handle is shaped like the neck of the bird.) Hence the old ditton, ‘A taylor be he ever so poor is sure to have a goose at his fire.’—Grose. Fr., un gendarme. 1606. Shakspeare, Macbeth, ii., 3. Come in, taylor; here you may roast your goose. 1606. Dekker, Newes from Hell, in Wks. (Grosart) ii., 114. Every man being armed with his sheeres and pressing Iron, which he calls there his goose. 1638. Randolph, Hey for Honesty. ... Tailor. Oh! it is an age that, like the Ostrich, makes me feed on my own goose. 1703. Ward, London Spy, pt. xii., p. 276. He grew as hot as a Botcher’s goose.