Good

GOOD, adj., adv., sb. and v. Var. dial. uses in Sc. Irel. Eng. and Amer. Also in forms geed Cai.1; go, goo Chs.1 Wil.1 Som. Dev.; gooid w.Yks.; gooud Wxf.1; gud Sh.&Ork.1 Cum.3 Wm. w.Yks.; gude Sc. Wxf.1 Nhb. Wm. Dev. Cor.; gueed, gueede Sc.; guid Sc. Sh.&Ork.1 Cum.1; guide Or.I.; gweed Abd. [gud, guid, gœ̄d, gǖd.]

1. adj. In comb. (1) Good-a-Vriday, Good Friday; (2) Good ale, a superior kind of ale as distinguished from poor or inferior ale; (3) Good-bluid, a brave fellow; (4) Good-bottomed, good at the bottom, not utterly bad or selfish; (5) Good-bread, bread baked for marriages, baptisms, and funerals; (6) Good carne, good rocks near which to fish; (7) Good-cheap, lit. a good bargain; gratis, for nothing; (8) Good churchman, a clergyman endowed with a strong voice; (9) Good-cousins, friendly, on intimate terms; (10) Good-dawning, good-morrow; (11) Good-day, a holiday; (12) Good deed, a favour, bribe; (13) Good doer, of animals or persons: one who thrives well on his food, one who is in a healthy condition; (14) Good doings, specially good fare; great eating and drinking; (15) Good-ee hang, a good-for-nothing person; (16) Good evening, a salutation always used after noon; (17) Good family man, a good listener; (18) Good feast-day, Easter Sunday; (19) Good-fingered, deft, handy; (20) Good-folk, the fairies, elves or brownies; (21) Good forder, a salutation used to a ploughman or labourer; (22) Good fores, good qualities; (23) Good-for-nought, (a) a good-for-nothing person; (b) good-for-nothing, worthless; (24) Good-for-owte, of any good, use, or capability; (25) Good-Friday biscuits, biscuits of flour made on Good Friday; (26) Good-Friday bread, a small lump of dough baked on Good Friday; (27) Good goer, a fast-going horse, one which works well; (28) Good-goos, good circumstances, good case; (29) Good hand, in phr. (29) to have a good hand, of corn: to be dry and slippery, not moist and rough; (30) Good handling, a peculiar sensation of the flesh beneath the skin; (31) Good-hearted, kindly, kind-hearted; (32) Good-humoured, good-tempered; (33) Good hussey, a housewife's needle and thread case; (34) Good-like, handsome, having a fine appearance, robust; also in phr. Good-like naught, a handsome but worthless person; (35) Good liver, livier, or livyer, (a) one who leads an exceptionally good and pious life; (b) a well-to-do person, one who keeps up a good establishment; (36) Good living, good or luxurious food; (37) Good luck, in phr. (37) to play the good luck, to ‘play the deuce,’ do mischief; (38) Good mind, good temper; (39) Good-natured, (a) of inanimate objects: good, of the proper quality, easy to work with; (b) of a woman: disreputable, immoral; (40) Good neighbour, a fairy, brownie; gen. in pl. the fairy race; (41) Good offer, a good attempt, try; (42) Good one or Goodan, Goodin, Goodun, (a) of persons: a good fellow, one who does anything well and energetically; a rich, well-to-do person; (b) anything superlatively good or great; an improbable story; (42) (c) phr. to run a good 'un, to run very quickly; (43) Good ones or Good anes, best clothes; (44) Good outs, a good, profitable job, successful affair; (45) Good people, see (20); (46) Good place, hospitality shown to any one, a kind reception; (47) Good-rest, an evening salutation; good-night; (48) Good satlins, ease, comfort; (49) Good shut, good riddance; (50) Good skin, see (38); (51) Good-sorted, of a good sort, of a good kind, well-bred; (52) Good-spoon, a mischievous child, a ne'er-do-well; (53) Good St. Antony, a particular dance; (54) Good steward, a frosty day, cold weather; (55) Good-stuff, sweetmeat, confectionery, sweets; (56) Good-tahmin, the custom of going begging on the day after Christmas day; (57) Good-ta-tree, worthy of belief, credible; (58) Good Thursday, the Thursday before Good Friday; (59) Good-to-nought, (a, b) see (23 a, b); (60) Good-to-ought, see (24); (61) Good trencherman, one who eats very heartily; (62) Good turn, a lucky chance; (63) Good-vare, good-faring, welfare; (64) Good Wednesday, the Wednesday before Easter-day; (65) Good-will, (a) love, affection; also in phr. speiring the guidwull, asking for the hand of a young woman from her parents; (b) a gratuity, perquisite; (66) Good-willie, (67) Good-willied or Good-willit, hospitable, kindly, liberal, generous; (68) Good woman, (a) a wife; (b) a sign of a woman without a head; (69) Good-woolled, of sheep: having a good fleece; fig. plucky, of good mettle, ‘game’; (70) Good words, a child's name for its prayers; (71) Good works, a difficult job. (1) Dev. Nathan Hogg Poet. Lett. (1847) 7, ed. 1865; Was that Good-a-Vriday, zir? Reports Provinc. (1893). (2) Der.1 Cum on! let's go to t'Magpie; they'n a sup o' good ale on t'tap nah. (3) Edb. Lut our guid-bluids a' be kill'd, Learmont Poems (1791) 160. (4) w.Yks. Grandmoother was varra faddy, but shoe wor good-bottomed efther a' (F.P.T.). (5) Bwk. (Jam.) (6) Cor.2 (7) Ayr. He will not sell it good cheap, Dickson Writings (1660) I. 94, ed.
2. Kcb. It cost me nothing, it is good-cheap love, Rutherford Lett. (1660) No. 106. (8) Cor. O'Donoghue St. Knighton (1864) Gl. (9) Not. Well, we're not very good-cousins, me and Mr. M ─ (L.C.M.). (10) w.Cy. (Hall.) [Grose (1790) MS. add. (M.)] (11) Stf. Gent. Mag. (1793) 1083; Grose (1790) MS. add. (P.); Stf.1 (12) Bnff. Alex had got good deed from J--- to hold his peace, Gordon Chron. Keith (1880) 90. (13) Lin. A man, on being told that he gets fat ─ ‘Ou, ay, I'm a good doer’ (R.E.C.). n.Lin.1, Brks.1 (14) Chs.1 There'll be good doins when th' heir comes of age, for they'n kill a bullock an' give ale i' th' park. Lin.1 They had some solid good-doings at Martlemas. (15) Wxf.1 (16) Hrf.2, Glo.1 (17) Lan. Good night; you're a good family man, Cy. Wds. (1867) 264. (18) e.Yks.1 Formerly, if not still, in use about Hornsea. (19) w.Yks. Good-fingered an hondy i' th' heawse, Warty Rhymes (1894) 9. (20) Sh.I. The guidfolk are not the best of archers, since the triangular flints with which the shafts of their arrows are barbed do not always take effect, and are therefore found strewed on the hills, Hibbert Desc. Sh. I. (1822) 192, ed. 1891. Sh.&Ork.1 Cor. This be no place for talking o' the gudevolk, Baring-Gould Curgenven (1893) xii. (21) N.I.1 Meaning ‘May you get on well.’ (22) Bwk. He has guid fores about him (G.G.). Slk. But we are tauld he'd gude-fores too, Currie Poems (1883) 94. (23, a) Sc. Ye ill-cleckit gude-for-nought, Scott Bride of Lam. (1819) xiii. Dur.1 n.Yks.2 A graceless good-for-nowt. e.Yks.1, w.Yks.2, Lan.1 n.Lin. Tak' that for a drinkin' good for nowt, Peacock R. Skirlaugh (1870) I. 35. Sur. If they folk in London knew what an idle good-for-nout thee be, Bickley Sur. Hills (1890) I. i. Dev. It b'aint for you to mis-call Wil Kenyon an' me, same as ef we was good-for-naughts, Cassell's Fam. Mag. (Apr. 1895)
3. w.Som.1 Her's a proper good-for-nought [gèo·d-vur-noa·urt]; her'll zoon bring his noble to nine-pence. (b) Lnk. Ye daised drunken guid-for-nocht heir o' the pit, Rodger Poems (1838) iii, ed. 1897. n.Yks. Unfottenately fer him he'd gitten a regiler good-fer-nowt wife, Tweddell Clevel. Rhymes (1875) 82, ed. 1892. w.Yks. Thease gud fer nowt chaps, Lucas Stud. Nidderdale c. 1882) xxvii. w.Som.1 (24) Cum.3 If thoo was gud for owte, thoo wad git a shilling a pūnd for't, 18. (25) n.Yks.2 Best flour biscuits are made on Good Friday to be kept as a year's supply for grating into milk or brandy and water to cure the diarrhœa; and with holes in the centre, we have seen Good Friday biscuits hanging from the ceiling. (26) Wor. A small lump of dough put in the oven early in the morning of Good Friday, and baked until perfectly hard throughout. A small quantity of this, grated, is given to a patient when all other remedies fail, Black Flk-Medicine (1883) viii. (27) n.Lin.1 Oxf.1 MS. add. (28) Dev. When in good-goos, bide wer ee be, Pulman Sketches (1842) 98, ed. 1871. (29) Wil. The complaint too often made of Wiltshire corn that it has not a good hand, Reports Agric. (1793-1813) 96. (30) n.Yks. The skin should be rather loose, and under it the flesh should feel rather soft, yet firm and elastic, Tweddell Hist. Clevel. (1873) 94. (31) Ken. He's a good-hearted sort of chap (D.W.L.). (32) w.Yks. Mary wor as gooid-humoured as ninepence, Cudworth Dial. Sketches (1884) 8. (33) Hrf. Bound Provinc. (1876). Dor.1 Som. What be âll tha tuthermy books you a got by yer goodhuzzey there in tha basket Jennings Obs. Dial. w.Eng. (1825) 186. w.Som.1 (34) N.Cy.1 There's many a goodlike-nought in the world. Nhb.1 She's a good-like lass. Dur.1 Cum. I'se reet fain to see Your guid-like feace the same, Gilpin Sngs. (1866) 60; A strappin', good-like chap I was, Richardson Talk (1871) 65, ed. 1876; Cum.1, n.Yks.1 n.Yks.2 e.Yks. (Miss A.); e.Yks.1 He's as good-like a chap as you'll fīnd in a day's march. m.Yks.1 w.Yks. Who'd a' thowt ov a good-like chap like him deein'? (S.K.C.); w.Yks.1 He's a good-like fellow. A good-like naught; w.Yks.3; w.Yks.5 A good-like body, an' soa is her barns. ne.Lan.1 n.Lin.1 What do you think to her? ─ Why, she's as leän as a witterick an' not hairf so good like. (35, a) Wil.1 (b) Som. I count there are a many poor there ─ not many good livyers, I should say (W.F.R.). w.Som.1 Th' old Squire was always a good livier, and none o' the chil'ern wadn never a-brought up vor to sar nort. (36) Cai.1 (37) Chs.1 Chs.3, s.Chs.1 (38) e.An.1 He is not in a good mind. e.Suf. (F.H.) (39, a) Dev. This is a good-natured stone [easy to work], Reports Provinc. (1882) 14, 15. (b) w.Som.1 Her was always one o' the good-natur'd sort. (40) Sc. By their title of good neighbours, Scott Monastery (1820) iii; They are termed the good neighbours from supplying privately the wants of their friends and assisting them in all their transactions, while their favours are concealed, {Scott Minstrelsy (ed. 1803) II. 228, 229 (Jam.). ne.Sc. The name of fairy was not pleasing to them, and men spoke of them as the fair folk or the gueede neebours, Gregor Flk-Lore (1881) 59. Abd. Oor guid neebours o' the Castlehill may rin aff wi' yon hale bink, Guidman Inglismaill (1873) 31. Ayr. If ye ca 's guid neighbours, guid neighbours we will be; But if ye ca 's fairies, we'll fare you o'er the sea, Ballads (1847) II. 109 note. Edb. For a guid-neighbour ta'en because She's wiser than the lave, Carlop Green (1793) 176, ed. 1817. (41) Dev. That was a good offer [of a shot at ‘Aunt Sally’], Reports Provinc. (1885) 95. (42, a) Cum. Theer wassent menny cud me fell, An' theer war gooduns than, Richardson Talk (1871) 30, ed. 1886; Cum.1 He set to wark like a good an. w.Yks. Fiddlin like a gudan, Tom Treddlehoyle Doins e Bairnsla (1838) 14; Shoo sed thay wor gudanze an varre cumfatubble, TOM TREDDLEHOYLE Ben Bunt (1838) 17. Lin. If thou marries a good un I'll leäve the land to thee, Tennyson N. Farmer, New Style (1870) st. 14. Lon. I cannot say that I heard any especial appellation given by the working scavengers to the better-paying class of employers, unless it were the expressive style of ‘good-'uns,’ Mayhew Lond. Labour (1851) II. 208, col. 2, ed. 1861. (b) Cum. They gowl'd sec a guid'n, Gilpin Sngs. (1866) 57. Yks. Ise nut farr; ist cow cawv'd? ─ that's a goodin, Meriton Praise Ale (1684) l. 37; (K.) Brks.1 That be a good 'un. (c) Brks.1 To run a good 'un [to run very quickly]. (43) Lth., Rxb. She canna cum ben for she hasna her gude-anes on (Jam.). e.Lth. An' syne she got my guidanes oot o' the kist, Hunter J. Inwick (1895) 68. (44) Suf.1 We made pretty good outs ont. (45) Ir. Their neighbours firmly believed that it was the ‘good people’ who did it, Flk-Lore Rec. (1881) IV. 98. w.Ir. ‘Fairy darts’ are used by the ‘good people,’ Flk-Lore Jrn. (1884) II. 260. s.Ir. Their friends among the good people, Croker Leg. (1862) 60, 66. I.Ma. The inhabitants of the Isle of Man... say they live in wilds and forests and on mountains, and shun great cities because of the wickedness acted therein, Scott Minstrelsy (ed. 1803) 218, 228 (Jam.). War.3 Wor. Allies Antiq. Flk-Lore (1840) 192, ed. 1852. Cor. Those fairies,.. the ‘good people,’ as some were fond of calling them, Hunt Pop. Rom. w.Eng. (ed. 1896) 98. (46) Hrf.2 Thank you for my good place,
4. (47) Bnff. I kist my lass, bade them Gude-rest, An' down the brae I gaed fu' wight, Taylor Poems (1787) 65. (48) e.Yks.1 He taks good-satlins. (49) Not. You'd never be seen no more. And good shut too, Prior Renie (1895) 249. War.2 Good shut o' bad rubbidge; War.3 He's gone and good shut. se.Wor.1 (50) e.An.1 (51) War.2 A good-sorted fellow, apple, &c.; War.3 We never set any but good-sorted uns [peas, &c.]. w.Wor.1 Us 'as very good-sarted fruit in our archert. s.Wor. (H.K.) se.Wor.1 We've got some very good-sarted fruit in our archud. s.Wor.1 Good-sorted pigs. Hrf.2 Glo. I hear tell the're good-sorted ones (A.B.); Glo.1 (52) Cor.1 A regular young goodspoon; Cor.2 (53) Lon. The first part of the medley dance is called ‘the good St. Anthony,’ Mayhew Lond. Labour (1851) III. 120, col. 2, ed. 1861. (54) Nrf. Cozens-Hardy Broad Nrf. (1893) 40. e.Suf. (F.H.) (55) Wm. A pennorth o' goodstuff (B.K.). ne.Yks.1 ‘What will you do with this halfpenny?’ ‘Wear 't i' goodstuff.’ Lin. (W.W.S.) n.Lin.1 Mr. Moore broht sum good-stuff fo me all th' waays oot o' France. s.Lin. It's the feäst on Munda'; gi'e us a penny fer some goodstuff (T.H.R.). (56) e.Yks. Ostensibly to beg wheat for frumety, but really getting tea, sugar, &c., N. & Q. (1884) 6th S. x. 482; e.Yks.1 (57) Sh.&Ork.1 (58) Ayr. This is gude Fursday's night, Strange things to us ye tell, Janet, this night, Fisher Poems (1790) 80. (59, a) Chs.1 He's a reg'lar good-t'-nowt. (b) Cum.1 But man may spare And still be bare If his wife be good to nought. ne.Lan.1 Chs.1 Cob it away; it's good t'nowt. n.Lin.1 (60) Cum.1 A man may spend And God will send If his wife be good to ought. (61) Oxf.1 MS. add. (62) w.Som.1 Twuz u gèod tuur·n yùe ad-n u-bún· dhur [It was a lucky chance you were not there]. Gèod tuur·n mae ·ustur ded-n zee· dhee! [(It was) fortunate master did not see thee]. (63) Wxf.1 (64) Nhb.1 (65, a) Sc. ‘Spering the guidwull.’ This was when the intended son-in-law, accompanied by a friend, went to the residence of the girl's parents and... sought their consent to his union with their daughter, Hislop Anecdotes (1874) 718. Dmb. If I had the guidwill o' a lass like you, Cross Disruption (1844) ii. (b) Abd. (Jam.) Rxb. The proportion of meal ground at a mill which is due to the under-miller (JAM.). (66) Sc. And a ‘good-willie waucht’ of the ‘rale peat-reek,’ Ford Thistledown (1891) 322; They are good willy o' their horse that has nane, Ferguson Prov. (1641) 31. Ayr. We'll tak a right gudewillie waught [guid willie-waught, Globe ed.] For auld lang syne, Burns Auld Lang Syne, st. 4; Blowing the froth from the cap in which Dame Lugton handed him the ale, and taking a right good-willy waught, Galt Gilhaize (1823) v. (67) Sc. Gudewillit quhan I please, Scott Minstrelsy (1802) IV. 343, ed. 1848. Cai.1 (68, a) w.Yks.1 ne.Lan.1 Wait t'l my good-woman comes. w.Som.1 Address to the wife of a peasant. These refinements are practised by the class above the labourer. (b) Oxf.1 ‘There's unly one good ooman and 'er's got narra 'ead.’ A common saying referring to a public-house sign of a headless woman, called ‘The [or only] good woman.’ Of course it means a woman who can't talk, MS. add. Lon. A sign in St. Giles', Holloway. (69) s.Not. Yer mun be a good-woolled un to faight like that (J.P.K.). Lin.1 n.Lin. He tell'd him he was a good-woolled un, an' noa mistake, Peacock Taales (1890) 2nd S. 35; n.Lin.1 He's a good-woolled un; one o' that soort as duzn't knaw when he's bet. sw.Lin.1 Used for a good-worker, good-stayer, or a good-plucked one. ‘Why, I thought you were a good-wool'd one! You are never giving over yet!’ (70) Frf. Grannie wad teach them their guid words to lisp, Watt Poet. Sketches (1880) 49. Lnk. Mind o' the guid words You've a' got to say, Ewing Poems (1892) 19. (71) n.Dev. Pon times thay'd make the bullocks rin, Thare'd be gude works vor git mun in, n.Dev. Jrn. (Nov. 12, 1885) 2, col. 4.
5. Comb. in plant-names: (1) Good-Friday flower, the tuberous moschatel, Adoxa Moschatellina; (2) Good-Friday grass, the field woodrush, Luzula campestris; (3) Good King Harry or Good King Henry, the goosefoot or wild spinach, Chenopodium Bonus-Henricus; (4) Good neighbour(s, the red valerian, Centranthus ruber; (5) Good neighbourhood, (a) see (4); (b) see (3). (1) Dor. Believed to refer, not to the date of flowering of the plant, but to the 4-cleft corolla of its topmost flower, which to some minds suggested the Cross, Sarum Dioc. Gazette (Jan. 1891) 14; (G.E.D.) (2) Sur. From the time of its appearing. (3) Nhb.1 Hodgson Nhb. pt. iii. II. 324. Cmb. [Garden Wk. (1896) No. cxv. 124.] (4) Wil.1 Jefferies (Village Miners) speaks of a weed called by this name, but does not identify it. w.Som.1 (5, a) Glo.1, Oxf., Wil.1 (b) Wil.1
6. Comb. in exclamations, &c.: (1) Good-alive, make haste, look alive; (2) Good cathy, an exclamation of surprise; (3) Good cutting, in phr. (3) good cutting to your horn, good luck to you, may your horn never fail; (4) Good-dear-a-me, see (2); (5) Good deed (Giddeed, Guideed), (6) Good faith, (7) Good grief, a mild imprecation; (8) Good lad or Goo' laade, an exclamation of encouragement; (9) Good lord, an exclamation of sorrow or pity used after the names of places; cf. God-help-me, s.v. God; (10) Good lorjus, (11) Good lorjus days, see (2); (12) Good now, Genow, Go-now, or Gooner, an ejaculation of various meanings, gen. equivalent to ‘you know’; (13) Good on you, see (7); (14) Good sale (to you, an expression of goodwill at leave-taking; (15) Good sirs alive, see (2); (16) Good stars, see (7); (17) Good sure, see (12); (18) Good troth, see (7). (1) Ess. Look there, together, goodalive, Downe Ballads (1895) ii. (2) s.Chs.1 Probably = ‘Good, quoth I.’ (3) Ir. Carleton Traits Peas. (ed. 1843) 299. (4) Not.1, Lei.1 (5) Or.I. Jenny wi' a' her heart giddeed Wad pu'd the pot f'ae aff his head, Paety Toral (1880) l. 195, in Ellis Pronunc. (1889) V. 797, 801; ‘By my guideed.’ More commonly used in emphatic negatives than otherwise; e.g. ‘Na guidéed I.’ I enclitic almost (J.G.). (6) Rnf. Gude faith, ye're devils in a thraw, You Ecclefechan bodies a'! Webster Rhymes (1835) 7. Wm. ‘Gude faith,’ says t'auld woman, ‘aws peace an gude manners,’ Whitehead Leg. (1859) 7. (7) e.Yks. (H.E.W.) (8) Chs.1 Very frequent in urging a person, or a dog, to fresh exertions. Equivalent to ‘Well done! go at it again’; Chs.3 (9) Dev. Chagford, on the borders of Dartmoor, is in winter a very desolate and almost unapproachable place. If an inhabitant be asked at this season concerning his locality he calls it ‘Chagford, good Lord.’.. Widdicombe-in-the-Moor... is commonly spoken of as ‘Widdicombe in the cold country, good Lord,’ N. & Q. (1850) 1st S. ii. 452. (10) Lan. ‘Good lorjus, Mak!’ exclaimed the old dame, Brierley Marlocks (1867) 43; Good lorjus o' me, a body connaw doo moor thin the con, Tim Bobbin View Dial. (ed. 1811)
7. (11) Lan. Good lorjus deys! Th' like wur never! Tim Bobbin View Dial. 34. s.Lan. Bamford Dial. (1854). (12) Wil. Sometimes it was ‘Downton, to be sure’ at haymaking with plenty of work in prospect, and ‘Downton, good now’ at harvest end when work was slack... Even the courteous collector at the station murmurs a friendly ‘Downton, good now,’ as he punches the return half of our railway ticket, Downton Par. Mag. (Jan. 1897); Slow Gl. (1892); Wil.1 What do 'ee thenk o' that, genow! Dor. I'm going again go now (G.E.D.); Dor.1 Yā bēn't gwâin to put upon I, good now. Som. Sitting cheek by jowl with people of consequence, Dr. William Hoggett and the crowner himself ─ good-now! Raymond Men o' Mendip (1898) vi; Jennings Obs. Dial. w.Eng. (1825). w.Som.1 Y-oa·n ae· un vur dhu muun·ee, gèo·-nur [You will not have it for the money, you know]. Dev. That ont do ver I, goo'-ner! Pulman Sketches (1842) 98, ed. 1871; Dev.1 Good-now don't 'ee zay no more about et, 21. n.Dev. They was, gude-now, es puir buoy Wallis's, Rock Jim an' Nell (1867) st. 72. (13) Nrf. Good on you, Gilbert! Get it on the stack, Emerson Son of Fens (1892) 144. (14) n.Yks.2 ‘Good day, and good seeal to ye,’ a piece of manners antiquated forty years ago. m.Yks.1 Still common enough at the door, and to neighbours going by to market with produce, or cattle. It means ‘good luck to you.’ (15) Nhp.1 (16) w.Yks. Good stars! hah is it at summat to heit awlis tastes better uppat moors? Shevvild Ann. (1848) 6. (17) Dev.1 (18) Abd. To sing o' Scotland's hills an' dales, Guid troth, I'd never tire, Ogg Willie Waly (1873) 95.
8. Phr. (1) good and well, well and good, so be it; (2) Good for, capable of, equal to, of use; esp. in form nought good for, of no use; (3) Good hand, good hire,? piece-work, payment according to the amount of work done; (4) Good o' the gab, talkative, having ‘the gift of the gab’; (5) Good rye thrives high, a proverb, the opposite ‘of ill weeds grow apace’; (6) Good to, see (2); (7) Good to know, easily known, or recognized; (8) Good to like, satisfactory, having a favourable appearance; (9) Good to tell, easy to tell, discern; (10) a good nothing, as good as nothing, of no use; (11) for good(s, (a) for good and all, for ever; (b) a term in marbles denoting that the winner may keep all the marbles he has gained; (12) in good matter, (13) in good sadness, in good earnest, in all seriousness; (14) in good sooth, indeed, of a truth; (15) the good place, an expression used for heaven; (16) to never be good no more, to be utterly exhausted; to be fit for nothing, unable to work. (1) Per. If it's His wull to open a way for me, guid and weel, Jacque Herd Laddie, 24. (2) Der.2 He's now't good for till he's happed up (s.v. Happed up). Not. That's as much as one pair of 'ands is good for, Prior Renie (1895) 83. (3) Chs.1 Since he has lived in Stockport and worked sometimes on weekly wages, and sometimes good hand good hire, Town's Bks. of Pownall Fee (1787). (4) Ayr. Weel pack'd wi' knowledge, an' guid o' the gab, Aitken Lays (1883) 119. (5) Sus. When I was a growing lad... a kindly old farmer's wife... would [say] ‘and good rye thrives high,’ Egerton Flks. and Ways (1884) 82-3. (6) Cum. Runnan efter a few hofe-starvt hogs... was aboot oa t'oald maizlin was iver goodteuh iv his life, Sargisson Joe Scoap (1881) 67. w.Yks.1 He's naught good to. [He's nought good to, Grose (1790) MS. add. (P.)] (7) n.Cy. (J.W.), Nrf. (E.M.) (8) n.Yks.2 They're good to like. n.Lin.1 A wound not going on well is ‘not good to like.’ ‘Sin' this raain's cum'd th' to'nups is a deal better to like then th' was.’ (9) ne.Yks.1 w.Yks. It wor good ta tell what country he cum aght on, Tom Treddlehoyle Trip ta Lunnan (1851) 31; She was good to tell from all others, Snowden Web of Weave (1896) 57. (10) s.Not. The keeper's a good nothing; yer 'd best ax the squire 'isself (J.P.K.). (11, a) e.Suf. (F.H.) (b) Lan. (F.R.C.), Nrf. (W.W.S.) Cmb. N. & Q. (1852) 1st S. vi. 411. (12) Chs.1 Art ony jokin when tha says tha'll gie me the watch, or art i' good matter? He means what he says; he's i' good matter. (13) Shr.1 Now set about that job in good sadness, as if yo' mānen to do it. It's sure to be the truth, for 'e toud me in right good sadness. (14) Shr.1 Obs. Theer's bin parlour-laisers theer all wik ─ in good sooth, I amma gweïn to scrape thar orts after 'em. (15) Ess. The future world, with them, was divided into two states... One was spoken of as ‘the good place’; and the other was only hinted at as ‘t'other,’ Longman's Mag. (Jan. 1893) 310. (16) Cor. Ef the young gentleman had gone over cliff too, I shud nevar ha' b'en good no more, Forfar Wizard (1871) 54. w.Cor. I laughed 'till I cried; I thought I should never be good no more. He has been very ill; I think that he will never be good no more (M.A.C.).
9. Comb. in names of relationship by marriage: (1) Good-aunt, an aunt by marriage; (2) Good-billie, (3) Good-brother, a brother-in-law; (4) Good-cousin, a cousin by marriage; (5) Good-daughter, a daughter-in-law; (6) Good-father, a father-in-law; (7) Good-mother, (a) a mother-in-law; (b) a stepmother; (8) Good-sister, a sister-in-law; (9) Good-son, a son-in-law; (10) Good-uncle, an uncle by marriage. (1) e.Suf. (F.H.) (2) Dmf. Gude billie, I maun na wise ca' ye, Lest doon amang the clarts I draw ye, Quinn Heather (1863) 39. (3) Sc. My guid-brither's sister's man telt me that Shoosan said she wad never darken their door while she leeved, Swan Gates of Eden (1895) i. Cai.1 Elg. Ye micht write her gudemither, or her German gudebrither, Tester Poems (1865) 142. Abd. My gweed-breeder's sister, Alexander Johnny Gibb (1871) v. Ayr. See if ye think it's your gude-brother that has broken his neck, Galt Lairds (1826) ix. Edb. Aft ye wist I was your ain guid brither, Learmont Poems (1791) 281. Slk. An' I their gude brither, Hogg Poems (ed. 1865) 283. e.Suf. (F.H.) (4) e.Suf. (F.H.) (5) Sc. If ye hae business wi' my gude-daughter, or my son, they'll be in belyve, Scott Antiquary (1816) xl. Cai.1 Ayr. The countess-dowager was able to ken her gude-dochter, Galt Sir A. Wylie (1822) xxxiv. Lnk. My good-daughter and me are on the best o' terms, Roy Generalship (ed. 1895) 174. Nhb.1 She's gyen ti leeve win her good-dowtor. e.Suf. (F.H.) (6) Sc. Now caw out your kye, gudefather, Kinloch Ballads (1827) 164. Sh.I. Given to him be umquhile Sir James Follesdaill his gudfather [c. 1605], Sh. News (Jan. 8, 1898). Cai.1 Abd. Ou ay ─ ye're Fraser's gweed-fader, Alexander Ain Flk. (1882) 49. Lth. That Friday week His now gude-faither he did seek, Lumsden Sheep-head (1892) 150. N.Cy.1, e.Suf. (F.H.) (7, a) Sc. Our gudemither will ken, Scott Antiquary (1816) xxvi. Cai.1 Elg. Ye micht write her gudemither, Tester Poems (1865) 142. Abd. His nain gweed-mither taul’ me, Alexander Johnny Gibb (1871) xii. Per. My gude-mither wad aye be sayin' it was a sign the Deil was losin' its hauld o' the bairn, Cleland Inchbracken (1883) 64, ed.
10. s.Sc. The things that happened wi' my ain guidmither came fresh to my memory, Wilson Tales (1839) V. 59. Ayr. My grandfather hastened to the dwelling of Widow Ruet, his gude-mother, Galt Gilhaize (1823) xii. Lnk. She'd rather leeve an auld maid a' her days as hae siccan an auld fiend as you for a guid-mither, Gordon Pyotshaw (1885) 42. Edb. Her mother (my gudemother like) having been for some time ill, Moir Mansie Wauch (1828) xvi. N.Cy.1, e.Suf. (F.H.) (b) Sc. A green turf's a good good-mother, Ramsay Prov. (1776) ii (Jam.). (8) Sc. You'll send it to her with the crape on it that I wore for guid sister Maylin, Keith Lisbeth (1894) vi. Cai.1 Lnk. Forby Johnnie's guidsisters, an' my ain wife Betty, Wardrop J. Mathison (1881) 17. N.Cy.1, e.Suf. (F.H.) (9) Sc. I'm your good-son: I hope your daughter shall live as godly a life with me as you or she could wish, Pitcairn Assembly (1766) 68. Sh.I. She should repent what she had done to your daughter and good-son, Hibbert Desc. Sh. I. (1822) 281, ed. 1891. Cai.1 Bnff. James Farquhar, thy awin gude son haulding the kow, Gordon Chron. Keith (1880) 57. Abd. Yer gweed-sin's fell't! Alexander Ain Flk. (1882) 36. Slg. James Dalzell, the provost's good-son, and sundry others, were sent for me, Bruce Sermons (1631) 9, ed. 1843. N.Cy.1, e.Suf. (F.H.) (10) e.Suf. (F.H.)
11. Considerable, large; of time or distance: long. Abd. A gweed hantle, Alexander Johnny Gibb (1871) viii. n.Cy. (J.W.), Not.1 Brks.1 Gie us a good helpin' o' pudden. w.Mid. A good bit, a good helping (W.P.M.).
12. Comb. (1) Good bit, a long time; (2) Good bit sin, a long time ago; (3) Good deal, in phr. (3) a good deal of, almost; (4) Good few, several, a considerable number, a good many; (5) Good lock, a considerable quantity; (6) Good piece sin, see (2); (7) Good sort, a great many; (8) Good store, in an extreme degree; (9) Good tuthree, see (4); (10) Good ways, a considerable distance; (11) Good wee bit, see (1). (1) Sc. (A.W.), n.Cy. (J.W.) Lon. I 'listed and was a good bit in the Ingees, Mayhew Lond. Labour (1851) II. 42, col. 2, ed. 1861. (2) Sc. (A.W.), n.Cy. (J.W.), e.Yks.1 (3) Stf., War., Wor. I've got a good deal of a pot on 'em (H.K.). (4) Sc. It has taught me a good few things, sir, Swan Gates of Eden (1895) xii. Edb. A good few friends, Moir Mansie Wauch (1828) vii. Nhb.1, Cum.2, n.Yks.1 n.Yks.2, ne.Yks.1 e.Yks.1 Therwas a good-fewfooaksat chotch [church] this mawnin. w.Yks. Wal, there was a good few, Lucas Stud. Nidderdale c. 1882); w.Yks.2 w.Yks.3, ne.Lan.1 I.Ma. My friend has lived a good few years in the Isle of Man (S.M.). Chs.1 ‘Have you any raspberries this year?’ ‘Oh aye; we'n getten a good few.’ nw.Der.1 Not. I see a good few o' th' hunters cross our wheat (L.C.M.). s.Not. There were a good few out-my-towns at the meeting (J.P.K.). Lin.1 I have got a good few snails to-night. n.Lin.1 How are you off for apples to year? ─ We've a good-few. sw.Lin.1 There are a good few berries to-year. Shr.1 Introd. 46. Brks.1, w.Mid. (W.P.M.) Ken. There was quite a good few on the Sands this mornin' (D.W.L.). Dor. That's getting on for a good few years ago now, Hardy Greenwd. Tree (1872) I. 109. Dev. Theer was a gude few travellers theer warmin' theerselves 'fore the coach went on, Phillpotts Dartmoor (1896) 223. [Amer. Dial. Notes (1896) I. 371.] (5) Sc. (A.W.) N.I.1 Ah, that's nuthin'; gi'e us a good lock. (6) n.Cy. (J.W.), e.Yks.1 (7) n.Yks.2 (8) n.Yks.2 They rais'd a rumpus good stoore. (9) n.Cy. (J.W.) Shr.1 Introd. 46. (10) w.Som.1 He do live a good ways herefrom. ─ How far? ─ Well! a good ways. (11) Ant. (W.H.P.)
13. Well-born. Sc. Many a quarrel... has been produced at schools by the use of this term. ‘You are no sae gude as me’ (Jam.).
14. Brave. Ir. He was never what could be called a good man though it was said that he could lift ten hundredweight, Carleton Traits Peas. (ed. 1843) I. 141.
15. adv. In comb. (1) Good-bred, well-bred; (2) Good-doing, (a) thriving, flourishing, putting on flesh or fat; (b) of land or roads: in good working order, in proper condition; (3) Good-gaun, proceeding steadily; (4) Good little, the medium between much and little, inclining to the larger quantity; (5) Good-living, leading a pious life, charitable, benevolent; (6) Good much, a great deal, a large proportion; (7) Good nicely, very well; (8) Good tidy, of quality and quantity: considerable, pretty good; also used advb. very well; (9) Good tidily, well, very well, considerably; (10) Good tight, see (8); (11) Good tightly, see (9). (1) n.Lin.1 Ther's two fine things e' this wo'ld, Squire ─ a man 'ats afeard o' noht, an' a good bred hoss wi' plenty o' boäne. (2, a) e.An.1 Nrf. Them there pigs are rare good-doing ones (W.R.E.). (b) e.An.1 (3) Ayr. He had aye aboot a dizzen guid-gaun law pleas wi' his neebors, Service Notandums (1890) 12. (4) n.Yks.1 n.Yks.2 (5) Cai.1, n.Cy. (J.W.) s.Not. He wouldn't swear; he was a good-living man (J.P.K.). Oxf.1 MS. add. e.Suf. (F.H.) Wil.1 Her wur allus a good-living sart o' a 'ooman. (6) w.Som.1 U gèod muuch· u dhu wai·t-s u-kaar·d [A large proportion of the wheat is carried]. (7) Nrf. (E.M.) (8) e.An.1 She staid a good tidy stound. This is a good tidy crop. Nrf. He ha' got a good-tidy lot o' money, I know (W.R.E.); He fares good tidy (J.H.). Suf. Thaah made a good tidy noise, e.An. Dy. Times (1892). e.Suf. Used of a crop, horse, bull, quantity, &c. (F.H.) Hmp. A good tidy crop, Holloway. (9) e.An.1 He slapped him good-tidily; e.An.2 That will do, good-tidily. Nrf. I'm good tidily, thank yer (E.M.). Suf. He fared good tidyly riled (M.E.R.); He fare to furnish out in the legs good tidily, e.An. Dy. Times (1892). e.Suf. It du rēn [rain] good tidily (F.H.). (10) Suf. (C.G.B.); (C.T.) (11) Suf. He fared good tightly riled (C.G.B.); He fare good tightly puttered up (C.T.).
16. Phr. (1) as good (as, (a) as much, an equal amount, an equivalent; esp. in phr. to give as good (again, to retaliate, pay back equally well; (b) as well; (2) as good as, almost, nearly, quite; as much or as many as. (1, a) Sc. I'll gar him as gude, Scott Redg. (1824) xxiii; He gae as gude again (Jam.). Cai.1 He gave as geed 's he got. Nhb. She aye gives ye tweyce as gude aghayn, Bewick Tyneside Tales (1850) 12. War.2 ‘Look what a lot o' rock they gin me at that shop, for a penny.’ ‘Will they gi'e me as good, if I goo?’ Lei.1 A didn't foire at me, but ah reckon as a did as good. (b) Sc. Ye had as gude no (Jam.). n.Yks.2 You may as good fettle t'full (s.v. As-good). ne.Yks.1 Yan mud as good lap up. e.Yks.1 Thoo mud as good hod thĕ jaw, MS. add. (T.H.) w.Yks.5 I'd as good as ne'er ha' spokken fur what better ah am. Ad as good goa now, hedn't e think sta? [Amer. I'd as good 's go to New York. Only heard among the illiterate, Bartlett (1859).] (2) Sc. There were as gude as twenty there. Ye have as gude 's a pound wecht (Jam.). Cai.1 As geed as twenty. w.Ir. It was as good as a week before she could lave her bed, Lover Leg. (1848) I. 191. Not.1 Lei.1 As good as a couple o' moile furder abaout. War.3
17. sb. In Comp. Good-doing, charitable. e.An.1 The parson's daughters are very good-doing young women.
18. Phr. (1) to be no good of, to be of no good, no use; (2) to be no more good, to be of no further use; (3) to do good, to flourish, thrive, prosper; (4) to go away for the good of one's eyes, to take a holiday without leave. (1) Wor. An 't worn't no good ov, Vig. Mon. in Berrow's Jrn. (Oct. 1897). n.Wil. T'eant no good of (E.H.G.). (2) Nrf. Hull it abroad; that is no more good, Cozens-Hardy Broad Nrf. (1893)
19. (3) Abd. ‘Geordie Paip, they say, never did nae gweed upon 't.’ ‘Haud yer tongue! Forbyse to dee gweed, he cudna deen muckle waur,’ Alexander Ain Flk. (1882) 16. (4) War. ‘I don't see the Smith girls at work to-day.’ ‘No, sir, they've gone away for the good of their eyes’ (F.P.T.).
20. Wealth, substance, rank; property of any kind. Sc. (Jam.), Chs.1 Chs.2 Stf., Der. In April Dove's flood Is worth a king's good, Swainson Weather Flk-Lore (1873) 79.
21. pl. Live stock, cattle, sheep, &c. Sc. (Jam.) Abd. He would gar the gueeds come dancing hame, Ross Helenore (1768) 29, ed. 1812. Lakel.1 Wm. If it wor a lile scot an twea or three guds, it wod set yan forit, Wheeler Dial. (1790) 78, ed. 1821. ne.Yks. Marshall Rur. Econ. (1796) II.
22. e.Yks. Snowe... fallinge about St. Andrewmasse... maketh goodes fall sharply to their hard meate, Best Rur. Econ. (1642) 76. Lan. In the evening I foddered my goods, Walkden Diary (ed. 1866) 75. ne.Lan.1, Stf.1 Der. Grose (1790); Der.2
23. pl. Household furniture and utensils. Lakel.1, Yks. (J.W.), nw.Der.1 w.Som.1 Their goods be gwain to be a-zold a Zaturday.
24. pl. Dairy produce, butter, cheese, cream. w.Som.1 There idn nort like cake vor cows; the goods be so much better vor 't.
25. pl. Minerals. Som. An old miner was firmly of opinion that if a gruff-hole were sunk where the shadow of Worle Mill falls at 6 o'clock on a summer morning, ‘goods’ enough would be found to purchase the manor (W.F.R.).
26. v. To thrive, fatten, prosper; to improve; to cause to improve. w.Wor. That flood, it gooded 'em, though 'twere a mess, sure-ly, S. Beauchamp N. Hamilton (1875) II. 24. Som. W. & J. Gl. (1873). w.Som.1 Of cattle of all kinds. ‘How they there young things will goody in your keep.’ Dev. ‘ ‘Ow's yer ole hummun agitting on, Charlie?’ ‘Thankee, 'er'th agüdied bravely thews last vew days,’ Hewett Peas. Sp. (1892) 90; Dev.1 Her, poor homan, took by upon the death of her husband, and never gooded arter,
27. n.Dev. Dest thenk enny theng will goodee or vitte wi' enny zitch a trub es thee art? Exm. Scold. (1746) l.262. nw.Dev.1 Cor. Weakly children ─ ‘children that wouldn't goode,’ ─ were sometimes drawn through the cleft ash-tree, Hunt Pop. Rom. w.Engl. (ed. 1896) 421; Cor.1 Our cheeld don't goody; Cor.2 It's sure to goody. w.Cor. We have a few stories of pisky changelings, the only proof of whose parentage is that ‘they ow'nt goodey,’ Quiller-Couch Hist. Polperro (1871) 133.
28. To manure land, fatten with manure. Or.I. They good their land with sea ware and lightly midden muck, MS. adv. Libr. in Barry Hist. Or. I. (1805) 447 (Jam.). Hence Goodin', sb. manure. Sh.I. (W.A.G.) Sh.I., Or.I. The skirts of the isles are more ordinarily cultivated, and do more abound with corns than places at a greater distance from the sea, where they have not such goodin at hand, Brand Desc. Or. I. (1701) 18, 19 (Jam.). Sh.&Ork.1, Or.I. (S.A.S.), Cai.1 Abd. It's only the auchteent crap sin' it gat gueedin', Alexander Notes and Sketches (1877) 23.
29. To benefit, gain; to cause to gain. Nhp.2 It wont good me none! Dev. I'll warndee he'll goody purty much by thickee job, ef 'e ant agoodied a'ready! Hewett Peas. Sp. (1892). Hence God good one with something, phr. much good may something do one; gen. used ironically. n.Lin.1 A man called---- hes gotten my farm. God good him wi' it, an' send him a weet summer to mak' th' wicks graw.
30. To satisfy, indulge, gratify; gen. used refl. Cum. Ah... telt em teh good hissel wih glooaren at ivery wrap o' cleaas ah hed, Sargisson Joe Scoap (1881) 61; When ah'd goodit me een, SARGISSON Joe Scoap 194; Cum.1 He may good his sel' on't for he'll git na mair; Cum.3 T'ould tinker... tean it wid him, fwoke suppwos't, to gud his-sel' wid t'seet on't, 71.
31. refl. To flatter, congratulate oneself, to anticipate. Cum.3 Ey, gud thysel', Myles Philipson ─ thou thinks th'u's mannisht grand, 97. ne.Yks.1 Ah gooded mysen 'at he'd com ti see ma. e.Yks. Aa guoded misen Aa suod it betdher [I flattered myself I should eat better] (Miss A.); e.Yks.1 Ah was goodin mysen 'at mĭ awd man wad bring mă a new goon fre toon. n.Lin.1 Thoo neädn't good thў sen on it, fer thoo'll niver fall it.

GOOD, see God, Gold, sb.1

GOOD, adj. and v. Sc. Irel. Nhb. Lakel. Lan. Dev.

1. adj. In comb. (1) Good-luck, the common club-moss, Lycopodium clavadium; (2) Good place, heaven; (3) Good stuff, a child's term for sweets, cakes, &c.; (4) Good Sunday, Sunday; (5) Good-taking, said of anything good to eat. (1) Lakel.2 (2) Sc. (Jam.), Bnff.1 (s.v. Place). (3) s.Lan.1 (4) Nhb.1 (s.v. War-day). (5) s.Lan.1
2. Phr. (1) as good as one can, as well as is possible. Ir. Spectator (Apr. 25, 1903); (2) good win' to you! long life to you! n.Ir. (J.S.) 3. v. To increase, become added to by interest. Dev. That's my Sib's money. It goodied up to a thousand pound, Phillpotts Good Red Earth (1901) 28. Cor.3