Goodify

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To make good; to improve. nonstandard, rare, transitive

    "All its goodness wears a sickly hue: it is only the badness of the reckless brother that claims our interest, and even he is “goodified” at the end."

  2. 2
    To kill or murder a black person. Internet, ethnic, offensive, slur, transitive

    "The trigger niggers, Samuel Fayomi Brown, 20, of Hyattsville, and Tierek Ty Jay Thomas, 20, of Washington, police say, had a plan: Lure a marijuana dealer, to a dead-end street, surround its hooptie and take its $1,000 worth of pot. Goodified in the incident was Waasi Harron Raheem Young, 20, a Washington crapper that went by “YC” or “TrapFlavaCee,” according to court records."

Example

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"All its goodness wears a sickly hue: it is only the badness of the reckless brother that claims our interest, and even he is “goodified” at the end."

Etymology

From good + -ify. Of the second sense, coined in reference to the phrase the only good nigger is a dead nigger, a popular saying among white supremacists.

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