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good cess

good cess noun: good luck, favourable outcome, happiness.

Noun

good cess (uncountable)

  1. (UK) Good luck, favourable outcome, happiness
    • Güde cess tü his sawl, poor blid! He hadden much ov thease world's güdes yer. He died game, 'e did, arter awl!1892, Sarah HEWETT, The Peasant Speech of Devon
    • Midland has had good cess with using minute commercials eight television stations, cited as one example of modernizing its advertising.1962, News for Farmer Cooperatives, Information Office, Farm Credit Administration
  2. (UK) Good riddance, a suitable dismissal or disposal of something worthless or harmful.
    • "It be nawbody," said John, "vor us to make a fush about. Belong to t'other zide o' the moor, and come staling shape to our zide. Red Jem Hannaford his name. Thank God for him to be hanged, lad; and good cess to his soul, for craikin' zo."1869, R. D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone, →ISBN

Origin of good cess

Uncertain, and also apparently varied, depending on context. Apart from the etymology of cess, as being from "success", "access" etc, some of the usages of good cess appear to refer to cesspool, as a place of suitable disposal.

Questions about good cess

What does good cess mean?
Good cess means good luck, favourable outcome, happiness.
What part of speech is good cess?
Good cess is a noun.

Words near good cess in the dictionary

  1. good breath
  2. good breaths
  3. good bye
  4. good cause
  5. good causes
  6. good cess
  7. good cholesterol
  8. good cholesterols
  9. good class bungalow
  10. good class bungalows
  11. good coin

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