gooden

Meaning

To make good; improve; better; perfect.
To become good.
To grow; improve; prosper.
To perambulate, usually town to town, collecting alms, gifts, or small gratuities before Christmas-time, usually on St. Thomas's Day.

From good + -en. Compare Middle English goden, godien, from Old English gōdian ("to improve, get better; make better; endow, enrich"). More at good.
Back-formation from goodening, an alteration of gooding, believed to be derived from goody or perhaps a survival of Middle English goden, godien, from Old English gōdian ("to improve, get better; make better; endow, enrich"). Alternative etymology derives this term from earlier hoodening, hodening perhaps a corruption of Woden.

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