| goodman | 1. A familiar appellation of civility, equivalent to "My friend", "Good sir", "Mister;" sometimes used ironically. "With you, goodman boy, an you please." (Shak) 2. A husband; the master of a house or family; often used in speaking familiarly. "Say ye to the goodman of the house, . . . Where is the guest-chamber ?" (Mark xiv. 14) In the early colonial records of new England, the term goodman is frequently used as a title of designation, sometimes in a respectful manner, to denote a person whose first name was not known, or when it was not desired to use that name; in this use it was nearly equivalent to Mr. This use was doubtless brought with the first settlers from England. Origin: Good + man. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| Goodman's syndrome | Congenital malformation in which oxycephaly, brachysyndactyly of hand, and preaxial polydactyly of feet are associated with mental retardation; it is usually inherited as an autosomal recessive trait but there is also a dominant form. Synonym: Carpenter's syndrome, Goodman's syndrome, Noack's syndrome, Sakati-Nyhan syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |