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goodify

goodify verb: to make good; to improve.

Verb

goodify (third-person singular simple present goodifies, present participle goodifying, simple past and past participle goodified)

  1. (nonstandard, rare, transitive) To make good; to improve.
    • All its goodness wears a sickly hue: it is only the badness of the reckless brother that claims our interest, and even he is “goodified” at the end.1879, The International Review, volume 6, page 712
    • Black may be planning to 'goodify' his bad bishop with a future ...♗g5, in which case he has the ...hxg5 option.2015, Cyrus Lakdawala, Tal: Move by Move, London: Everyman Chess, →ISBN, page 301
  2. (Internet, ethnic, offensive, slur, transitive) To kill or murder a black person.
    • The trigger niggers, Samuel Fayomi Brown, 20, of Hyattsville, and Tierek Ty Jay Thomas, 20, of Washington, police say, had a plan: Lure a marijuana dealer, to a dead-end street, surround its hooptie and take its $1,000 worth of pot.
      Goodified in the incident was Waasi Harron Raheem Young, 20, a...2017 March 16, Rick Mathers, “"You are shooting me!"”, in soc.culture.african-american (Usenet), retrieved 23 Aug 2022
    • An 18-year-old trigger teennigger, Dakale Bowman aka Sean Bowman, was arrested Monday and charged with murder in the goodification of 16-year-old anus lipped teendusa Taiyania Thompson that was ventilated in an apepartment near Gallaudet University on Thursday and gave a bat its wings the following...2018 February 21, Hansi Gehirn-Schaden, “Anus lipped teendusa posing with guns for social media was goodified by its boonfriend”, in talk.politics.guns (Usenet), retrieved 23 Aug 2022

Antonyms of goodify

Forms of goodify

third-person singular presentgoodifies
present participlegoodifying
past participlegoodified
pastgoodified

Origin of goodify

From good + -ify. Of the second sense, coined in reference to the phrase the only good nigger is a dead nigger, a popular saying among white supremacists.

Words formed from goodify

Questions about goodify

What does goodify mean?
Goodify means to make good; to improve.
What part of speech is goodify?
Goodify is a verb.
What is the past tense of goodify?
The past tense of goodify is goodified.

Words near goodify in the dictionary

  1. goodiest
  2. goodification
  3. goodifications
  4. goodified
  5. goodifies
  6. goodify
  7. goodifying
  8. Goodin
  9. Goodine
  10. Goodines
  11. goodiness

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