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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Several sets of verses were strung together for and about him by the goody goody papers of the time.

From West African studies by Kingsley, Mary Henrietta

She won't let even Gillian read anything she hasn't looked over, and she doesn't like anything that isn't goody goody.'

From The Two Sides of the Shield by Yonge, Charlotte Mary




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