n.;
n.;
a. Weakly or sentimentally good; affectedly good; -- often in the reduplicated form
a. Mawkishly or weakly good; exhibiting goodness with silliness. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. 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
n. The state or quality of a goody or goodwife [ Jocose ] Hudibraus.