good

Nonstandard form of 嗗 (“sound of gulp”).

/kuːt̚²¹ kuːt̚² kuːt̚³⁵/

/kuːt̚²¹ kuːt̚² kuːt̚³⁵/

Romanisation of 嗗 (gut⁴, gut⁶, gut²), influenced by spelling of English good. Not related to English good semantically.


good

/kuːt̚²¹ kuːt̚² kuːt̚³⁵/

/kuːt̚²¹ kuːt̚² kuːt̚³⁵/


good

good intentions

c. 1525, The Example of Euyll Tongues, page a3 rectoː
Yf ony man wolde begynne his synnes to reny / Or ony good people that fro vyce dyde refrayne / What so euer he were that to vertue wolde applye / But an yll tonge wyll all ouer throwe agayne
If any man would begin to renounce his sins, / Or any good people who refrained from vice, / Whatsoever he who wished to apply himself to virtue might be, / Still an ill tongue would overthrow it all again.

When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.

1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter 6, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:

Acting in the interest of what is beneficial, ethical, or moral.

a good swimmer

Flatter him it may, I confess, (as those are generally good at flattering who are good for nothing else,) but in the meantime the poor man is left under the fatal necessity of a needless delusion

1704, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached on Several Occasions, On the nature and measure of conscience:

Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.

1922, Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:

And Marsha says I am a good cook!
Audio (US): (file)

2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

(of people or animals)
Competent or talented.

Can you lend me fifty dollars? You know I'm good for it.

Able to be depended on for the discharge of obligations incurred; of unimpaired credit; used with for.

Be good while your mother and I are out.

Were you a good boy for the babysitter?

Well-behaved (especially of children or animals).

Well-behaved (especially of children or animals).

Would you like a glass of water? — I'm good.

[Are] you good? — Yeah, I'm fine.

Gimme another beer! — I think you're good.

(US) Satisfied or at ease; not requiring more.

Satisfied or at ease; not requiring more.

My mother said she's good with me being alone with my date as long as she's met them first.

The soup is rather spicy. Are you good with that, or would you like something else?

(colloquial, with with) Accepting of, OK with

Thou art a Traitor, and a Miſcreant;
Too good to be ſo, and too bad to liue,
Since the more faire and chriſtall is the skie,
The vglier ſeeme the cloudes that in it flye:

1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 23, columns 1–2:

(of people or animals)
(archaic) Of high rank or birth.

it’s a good watch;  the flashlight batteries are still good

1526, Herballː
Against cough and scarceness of breath caused of cold take the drink that it hath been sodden in with Liquorice[,] or that the powder hath been sodden in with dry figs[,] for the same the electuary called dyacalamentum is good[,] and it is made thus.

Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[…]The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation,[…]. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better. These rarities may be new mutations, or they can be existing ones that are neutral—or are even selected against—in a wild population. A good example is mutations that disrupt seed dispersal, leaving the seeds on the heads long after they are ripe.

2013 May-June, David Van Tassel, Lee DeHaan, “Wild Plants to the Rescue”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:

Useful for a particular purpose; functional.

Useful for a particular purpose; functional.

a good worker

There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.

1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter II, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0091:

in good sooth

Love no man in good earnest.

c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

(of capabilities)
(obsolete) Real; actual; serious.

The food was very good.

(properties and qualities)
(of food)
Having a particularly pleasant taste.

Eat a good dinner so you will be ready for the big game tomorrow.

Being satisfying; meeting dietary requirements.

Being satisfying; meeting dietary requirements.

The bread is still good.

Of food or other perishable products, still fit for use; not yet expired, stale, rotten, etc.

This coupon is good for a free doughnut.

Valid, of worth, capable of being honoured.

Valid, of worth, capable of being honoured.

This theory still holds good even if much higher temperatures are assumed.

Twinnia biclavata differs from T. nova by inversion IS-1 and a nucleolar shift. Both are good species.

1966, K. Rothfels, Margaret Freeman, “The salivary gland chromosomes of three North American species of Twinnia (Diptera: Simuliidae)”, in Canadian Journal of Zoology, volume 44, number 5, →DOI:

(properties and qualities)
True, valid, of explanatory strength.

It is not good to be alone, / to walk here in this worthely wone, / In all this welthly wyn;

15th c., “[The Creation]”, in Wakefield Mystery Plays; Re-edited in George England, Alfred W. Pollard, editors, The Towneley Plays (Early English Text Society Extra Series; LXXI), London: […] Oxford University Press, 1897, →OCLC, page 6, lines 184–185:

It is not good to be alone / to walk here in this noble dwelling-place / in all this rich delight.

If all was good and fair we met,
This earth had been the Paradise
It never look’d to human eyes
Since Adam left his garden yet.

1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XXIV, page 41:

(properties and qualities)
Right, proper, as it should be.

Exercise and a varied diet are good for you.

We had a good time.

(properties and qualities)
Pleasant; enjoyable.

a good omen;  good weather

Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.[…]Next day she[…]tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head. Then, thwarted, the wretched creature went to the police for help; she was versed in the law, and perhaps had spared no pains to keep on good terms with the local constabulary.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XLIV, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 361:

a person's good name

(properties and qualities)
Unblemished; honourable.

a good job

(properties and qualities)
Beneficial; worthwhile.

[I]f thou ask me why, / Sufficeth my reaſons are both good and waighty.

c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 212, column 2:

(properties and qualities)
Adequate; sufficient; not fallacious.

The soup is good and hot.

(colloquial, when with and) Very, extremely. See good and.

I'm good when you are.

The reports are good to go.

Good Friday, Good Wednesday, the Good Book

all in good time

a good while longer

a good number of seeds

A good part of his day was spent shopping.

It will be a good while longer until he's done.

He's had a good amount of troubles, he has.

The big houses, and there are a good many of them, lie for the most part in what may be called by courtesy the valleys. You catch a glimpse of them sometimes at a little distance from the [railway] line, which seems to have shown some ingenuity in avoiding them,[…].

1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter III, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC:

(of quantities)
Large in amount or size.

This hill will take a good hour and a half to climb.  The car was a good ten miles away.

Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.

1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 16:

(of quantities)
Full; entire; at least as much as.

en-adj

good (comparative better or (nonstandard, humorous) gooder, superlative best or (nonstandard, humorous) goodest)

better (comparative)
gooder (comparative humorous nonstandard)
best (superlative)
goodest (humorous nonstandard superlative)
goode (alternative)

bad

antonym(s) of “having positive attributes”

a nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse

a nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat

it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good

it's an ill wind that blows no one any good

let the door hit you where the good Lord split you

let the perfect be the enemy of the good

nobody ever went broke underestimating the good taste of the American people

nobody ever went broke underestimating the good taste of the American public

there's many a good tune played on an old fiddle

the road to hell is paved with good intentions

what's good for the goose is good for the gander

desc

Solombala English: гудъ (gud), гутъ (gut)

Solombala English: гудъ (gud), гутъ (gut)

шӏу

acting in the interest of good; ethical good intentions

of food, having a particularly pleasant taste

Inherited from Middle English good, from Old English gōd, from Proto-West Germanic *gōd, from Proto-Germanic *gōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ- (“to unite, be associated, suit”).
Cognate with Russian го́дный (gódnyj, “fit, well-suited, good for; (coll.) good”), год (god), "year", via "suitable time".
Related to gather and together, but not to god/God.
Eclipsed non-native Middle English bon, bone, boon, boun (“good”) borrowed from Old French bon (“good”), from Latin bonus (“good”).

cog

fit, well-suited, good for; (coll.) good


good

Good! I can leave now.

That is good; an elliptical exclamation of satisfaction or commendation.


good

When you're cleaning these racks, you've got to get in there good, because the quality system specifies it.

The boy done good. (did well)

If Silvertip refuses to give you the horse, grab him before he can draw a weapon, and beat him good. You're big enough to do it.

1906, Zane Grey, The Spirit of the Border: A Romance of the Early Settlers in the Ohio Valley:

I kept my eyes peeled for signs of pursuit. There was none, unless I was being fooled very good.

1970, Troy Conway, The Cunning Linguist, London: Flamingo Books, page 66:

She said, "I don't want to bother you / Consider it's understood / I know I'm not no beauty queen / But I sure can listen good."

1972, Harry Chapin (lyrics and music), “A Better Place to Be”, in Sniper and Other Love Songs:

Marsellus fucked him up good. Word 'round the campfire is it was on account of Marsellus Wallace's wife.

1994, Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary, Pulp Fiction, spoken by Jules (Samuel L. Jackson):

The one thing that we can't do...is throw out the baby with the bathwater.... We know our process works pretty darn good and, uh, it’s really sparked this amazing phenomenon of this...high-quality website.

2007 April 19, Jimmy Wales, “Jimmy Wales on the User-Generated Generation”, Fresh Air, WHYY, Pennsylvania https://web.archive.org/web/20070423020137/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9683874

"They're travellin' good now. We'll leave them be."

2010, Monte Dwyer, Red in the Centre: Through a Crooked Lens, Monyer Pty Ltd, page 14:

Admiral Anderson: You did good, child. You did good. I'm proud of you.

2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel (Priority: Earth):

(informal) Well; satisfactorily or thoroughly.

en-adv

good (comparative better, superlative best)

Inherited from Middle English goode (“good, well”, adverb), from the adjective. Compare Dutch goed (“good, well”, adverb), German gut (“good, well”, adverb), Danish godt (“good, well”, adverb), Swedish gott (“good, well”, adverb), all from the adjective.


good

And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. Soft heartedness caused more harm than good.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

(uncountable) The forces or behaviours that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and general benevolence.

(countable) A result that is positive in the view of the speaker.

The best is the enemy of the good.

He is an influence for good on those girls.

There be many that say, Who will show us any good? Lord lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 4:6:

[…]the government must be a weak one indeed, if it should forget that the good of the whole can only be promoted by advancing the good of each of the parts or members which compose the whole.

1788, John Jay, The Federalist Papers, number 64:

(uncountable) The abstract instantiation of goodness; that which possesses desirable qualities, promotes success, welfare, or happiness, is serviceable, fit, excellent, kind, benevolent, etc.

Coordinate term: service

Thy lands and goods / Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate / Unto the state of Venice.

c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

(countable, usually in the plural) An item of merchandise.

en-noun

good (countable and uncountable, plural goods)

Inherited from Middle English good, god, from Old English gōd (“a good thing, advantage, benefit, gift; good, goodness, welfare; virtue, ability, doughtiness; goods, property, wealth”), from Proto-Germanic *gōdą (“goods, belongings”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ-, *gʰodʰ- (“to unite, be associated, suit”). Compare German Gut (“item of merchandise; estate; property”).


good

(intransitive, now) To thrive; fatten; prosper; improve.

(transitive) To make good; turn to good; improve.

(intransitive) To make improvements or repairs.

(transitive) To do good to (someone); benefit; cause to improve or gain.

(transitive) To satisfy; indulge; gratify.

(reflexive) To flatter; congratulate oneself; anticipate.

en-verb

good (third-person singular simple present goods, present participle gooding, simple past and past participle gooded)

goods (present singular third-person)
gooding (participle present)
gooded (participle past)
gooded (past)

Inherited from Middle English goden, godien, from Old English gōdian (“to improve, get better; make better; endow, enrich”), from Proto-West Germanic *gōdōn (“to make better, improve”), from Proto-Germanic *gōdaz (“good, favorable”).


good

April 5 1628, Bishop Joseph Hall, The Blessings, Sins, and Judgments of God's Vineyard
Nature was like itself , in it , in the world : God hath taken it in from the barren downs , and gooded it : his choice did not find , but make it thus

(transitive, now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) To furnish with dung; manure; fatten with manure; fertilise.

From English dialectal, from Middle English *goden, of North Germanic origin, related to Swedish göda (“to fatten, fertilise, battle”), Danish gøde (“to fertilise, battle”), ultimately from the adjective. See above.


good

Another evil nigger made good. I love a good news story.

2008 October 17, Anthony X (Janet Arvizo is a disgusting liar, Tom Sneddon is a disgusting racist http://asb-comm-logic.com, “TNB: 36-year-old African American shot to death”, in alt.true-crime (Usenet):

Sow Sheeboon Savannah Jeanne Walker of Louisville, KY was made good in a shooting at cRap show called 'A Boogie With The Hoodie' Saturday night at the Tim Faulkner Art Gallery. 5 other niggers were shot and are expected to survive. No suspooks have been captured.

2017 March 21, Rick Mathers, “6 Shitskin Boogs Shot At 'A Boogie With The Hoodie' Concert”, in alt.checkmate (Usenet):

The usual nigger nonsense from da fambly. He beez a good daddy to his keeids (I wonder how many more keeids this useless nigger has that the media didn't tell us about.) He wuz juss mindin' his own bidness when da popo got in da way. He din do nuffins. The BLM niggers and their lovers will be chimping out for sure. LEO's already have a tough job as it is, dealing with niggers has to be the worst part of the job. I'm glad that coon was made good.

2017 November 7, Casa de los peregrinos, “Groid rage motorist chimps out on motorist”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):

Bolsheviks have got to be in heat over this, a nigger with well over 40 arrests including violent assault is properly made good for threatening people on the subway, will the law abiding law defending hero be thrown under the bus to appease blacks [again]?

2023 May 4, JeSSe, “White US Marine kills black felon in self defense - BLM/antifa threaten riots if he is not arrested and found guilty”, in uk.current-events.terrorism (Usenet):

(Internet slang, offensive, ethnic slur) Of a black person, dead or killed.

Coined in reference to the phrase the only good nigger is a dead nigger, a popular saying among white supremacists.


good

head

good (comparative baeter, superlative bès, predicative superlative 't 't bès)

baeter (comparative)
bès (superlative)
't 't bès (predicative superlative)
gooje (masculine nominative singular)
gooj (masculine nominative plural)
gooj (feminine nominative singular)
gooj (feminine nominative plural)
good (neuter nominative singular)
gooj (neuter nominative plural)
goods (genitive masculine singular)
goojer (genitive masculine plural)
goojer (feminine genitive singular)
goojer (feminine genitive plural)
goods (genitive neuter singular)
goojer (genitive neuter plural)
goojes (locative masculine singular)
gooje (locative masculine plural)
goojes (feminine locative singular)
gooje (feminine locative plural)
goojes (locative neuter singular)
gooje (locative neuter plural)
gooj (vocative)
gooje (dative masculine singular)
goojen (dative masculine plural)
goojer (dative feminine singular)
goojen (dative feminine plural)
good (dative neuter singular)
goojen (dative neuter plural)
gooje (accusative masculine singular)
goojen (accusative masculine plural)
good (accusative feminine singular)
gooj (accusative feminine plural)
good (accusative neuter singular)
goojen (accusative neuter plural)
gott (alternative)
joot (alternative)


good

14th c., Chaucer, General Prologue

advantageous, wealthy, profitable, useful

For to make Soupys dorry. Nym onyons […] Nym wyn […] toste wyte bred and do yt in dischis, and god Almande mylk.

1381, Pegge Cook, Recipes, page 114, quoted in 1962, Hans Kurath & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., Middle English Dictionary, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-01044-8, page 1242

(please add an English translation of this quotation)

Soupes dorye. — Take gode almaunde mylke […] caste þher-to Safroun an Salt […]

c. 1430 (reprinted 1888), Thomas Austin, ed., Two Fifteenth-century Cookery-books. Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce ms. 55 [Early English Text Society, Original Series; 91], London: N. Trübner & Co. for the Early English Text Society, volume I, OCLC 374760, page 11

good (plural and weak singular gode, comparative bettre, superlative best)

gode (plural)
gode (singular weak)
bettre (comparative)
best (superlative)
god (alternative)
gode (alternative)
goed (alternative)
gude (alternative)

desctree

English: good, goode (obsolete)
Solombala English: гудъ (gud), гутъ (gut)

Scots: guid

Yola: gooude, gude, gayde

Inherited from Old English gōd, from Proto-West Germanic *gōd, from Proto-Germanic *gōdaz.