goodyship

== English == === Etymology === From goody +‎ -ship. === Noun === goodyship (uncountable) (dated, humorous, rare) The state or quality of a goody or goodwife. 1663-78, Samuel Butler, Hudibras: In Three Parts. Written in the Time of the Late Wars. Edinburgh: Printed for R. Clark, P. Anderson, & A. Brown, 1784. Part I, Canto 3, lines 517–518. [1] The more shame for her goodyship, / To give so near a friend the slip. === References === “goodyship”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.