Goody quickenshoon
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Jump to navigationJump to search- Goody Two-shoes: the protagonist of the 1765 children’s story The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes, which is a variation on the fairytale Cinderella; the anonymous tale has been attributed to the Irish author Oliver Goldsmith
- goody two-shoes: an overly virtuous child
- gode: (Danish) good
- shoon: (archaic plural) shoes
- quicken: to reach that stage of pregnancy in which the foetus begins to manifest outward signs of life (e.g. kicking)
