goodens

Verb (1)

gooden (third-person singular simple present goodens, present participle goodening, simple past and past participle goodened)

1. (transitive) To make good; improve; better; perfect.
   • For many years we have endeavored to comprehend how a/b could transform highly intelligent and in many respects 'model' girls and women (and sometimes boys and men) into unwitting bystanders and accomplices to their own torture and impending death while remaining convinced that they are being...2009, Helen Malson, Maree Burns, Critical Feminist Approaches to Eating Dis/Orders
2. (intransitive) To become good.
3. (UK, dialectal, intransitive) To grow; improve; prosper.

Verb (2)

gooden (third-person singular simple present goodens, present participle goodening, simple past and past participle goodened)

1. (dialectal, intransitive) To perambulate, usually town to town, collecting alms, gifts, or small gratuities before Christmas-time, usually on St. Thomas's Day.
   • Phoebe, in support of a good old Sussex custom, regularly, on St. Thomas's Day, December 21st, went out "Goodening," visiting well-to-do parishioners, to gossip upon the past, over hot elderberry wine and plum cake, and to receive doles, either in money or materials, [...]1871, Henry Martin, The history of Brighton and environs

   Synonyms:

   mump

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