dogoodery

noun

Etymology

From do + good + -ery.

  1. derived from *gʰedʰ-✻ — “to unite, be associated, suit, fit”
  2. inherited from *gōdaz✻ — “good”
  3. inherited from *gōd✻
  4. inherited from gōd
  5. inherited from good
  6. compounded as dogoodery — “do + good”

Definitions

  1. Acts of beneficence

    Acts of beneficence; habitual beneficent behavior or behavior undertaken (ostensibly) for good reasons.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dogoodery. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA