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goody-goody

 : 
Adjective, Noun
 : 
good=y-good=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

goody-goodya. 
     Mawkishly or weakly good; exhibiting goodness with silliness.  [1913 Webster]
goody-goodyn. 
     A person who is weakly, sentimentally, or affectedly good; a goody-goody person; -- sometimes used to refer to person who acts with good intentions but who bunglingly does more harm than good. The latter may sometimes be deprecatingly referred to as a goo-goo.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

goody-goody, n. & adj. colloq.
--n. a smug or obtrusively virtuous person.
--adj. obtrusively or smugly virtuous.


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