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gooden

The English word “gooden” has 4 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To make good; improve; better; perfect.
  2. To become good.
  3. To grow; improve; prosper.
  4. To perambulate, usually town to town, collecting alms, gifts, or small gratuities before Christmas-time, usually on St. Thomas's Day.

Etymology

From good + -en. Compare Middle English goden, godien (“to make good, become good, endow with goods”), from Old English gōdian (“to improve, get better; make better; endow, enrich”). More at good.

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