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goody-goody

[good-ee-good-ee] / ˈgʊd iˈgʊd i /
NOUN
overly good or nice person
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A: I didn't want to make him too good, goody, goody good.

From Reuters • Oct. 2, 2013

"What do we shriek," asked Actress Chase, "goody, goody?"

From Time Magazine Archive

He now punctuates Hannibal's low-slung, threatening sentences with "okeydokey" and "goody goody."

From Time Magazine Archive

She pokes out her tongue at the boy and says "goody, goody, goody, goody, goody!"

From Three Plays Lawing and Jawing; Forty Yards; Woofing by Hurston, Zora Neale

"Oh, goody, goody, goody!" exclaimed Mary Jane and she clapped her hands gayly, "and that's a grown-up lady thing for true!"

From Mary Jane: Her Book by Judson, Clara Ingram




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