phrase in parting for the evening or retiring to sleep, c. 1200, from good (adj.) + night. As an exclamation of surprise from 1893.
goodly
goodman
good-natured
good-neighbor
goodness
good-night
goods
good-time
goodwife
goody
gooey
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