Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

do-goodery

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: do--good-ery
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

4

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The supposedly helpful activities of a do-gooder.

Example Sentences

"2010 By Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Energy and Climate Change Committee. P.5 Emissions Performance Standards Professor Gibbins: It would do if the EPS was applied properly to biomass. With large-scale biomass at the moment we are seeing some travesties of environmental do-goodery, in fact, because we are seeing 295 MW biomass plants being built..."

Etymology

From do-gooder + -ery.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: do-gooder

Inflected Forms

do-gooderies (plural)

Questions

What does do-goodery mean?: The supposedly helpful activities of a do-gooder.
Where does do-goodery come from?: From do-gooder + -ery.

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