different between goodly vs noodly

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???dli/
• Hyphenation: good?ly

Etymology 1

From Middle English goodly, goodlich, g?dlich, from Old English g?dl?? (“good, goodly”), from Proto-Germanic *g?dal?kaz (“good, goodly”); equivalent to good +? -ly. Cognate with German gütlich (“friendly”), Icelandic góðlegur (“benign”).

Adjective

goodly (comparative goodlier, superlative goodliest)

1. (dated) Good; pleasing in appearance; attractive; comely; graceful; pleasant; desirable.
   • 1866, Algernon Charles Swinburne, A Ballad of Death, in Poems and Ballads, lines 26–27:

     O Sin, thou knowest that all thy shame in her

     Was made a goodly thing.

   • 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night:

     Then the prince left her and betook himself to the palace of the King his father, who rejoiced in his return and met him and welcomed him; and the Prince said to him, "Know that I have left her without the city in such a garden and come to tell thee, that thou mayst make ready the procession of estate and go forth to meet her and show her the royal dignity and troops and guards." Answered the King, "With joy and gladness"; and straightway bade decorate the town with the goodliest adornment.

2. Quite large; considerable; sufficient; adequate; more than enough.

   a goodly sum of money

   walking at a goodly pace

Derived terms

• goodliness

Etymology 2

From Middle English goodly, goodliche, g?dliche, from Old English g?dl??e (“goodly”), from the adjective; equivalent to good +? -ly. Cognate with Middle High German guotl?che, güetl?che.

Adverb

goodly (comparative goodlier, superlative goodliest)

1. (obsolete) In a goodly way; courteously, graciously.
2. (dialectal or obsolete) Well; excellently.
   • a. 1599, Edmund Spenser, To the Earle of Cumberland

     For love of vertue and of martial praise;
     To which though nobly ye inclined are,
     (As goodlie well ye shew'd in late assaies)
     

English

Etymology

noodle +? -y

Adjective

noodly (comparative more noodly, superlative most noodly)

1. of or pertaining to noodles
2. (music) involving improvisation
3. floppy, droopy

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