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.
1748. T. Dyche, Dictionary (5th ed.). Goose (s.) ... also the
large, heavy iron used by taylors, to press down their seams with
when heated very hot.
1766. Kenrick, Falstaff’s Wedding, iii., 1. Although they had been
hissing all the way like a tailor’s goose.
1861. Sala, Twice Round the Clock, Noon, Par. 12. An Irish tailor
who has had a slight dispute with his wife the night before, and
has corporeally chastised her with a hot goose—a tailor’s goose, be
it understood—to the extent of all but fracturing her skull.
1877. Five Years’ Penal Servitude, ch. ii., p. 89. On the return of
the warders from their own breakfast, the tools—scissors,
sleeve-boards, irons, or geese—are served out.