Goldilocks
pronunciation
How to pronounce Goldilocks in British English:
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- Noun:
- early-flowering perennial of southern and southeastern Europe with flower heads resembling those of goldenrod
Word Origin
- Goldilocks (n.)
- name for a person with bright yellow hair, 1540s, from goldy (adj.) "of a golden color" (mid-15c., from gold (n.)) + plural of lock (n.2). The story of the Three Bears first was printed in Robert Southey's miscellany "The Doctor" (1837), but the central figure there was a bad-tempered old woman. Southey did not claim to have invented the story, and older versions have been traced, either involving an old woman or a "silver-haired" girl (though in at least one version it is a fox who enters the house). The identification of the girl as Goldilocks is attested from c. 1875. Goldylocks also is attested from 1570s as a name for the buttercup.
Example
- 1. A little girl named goldilocks lived in the village .
- 2. Goldilocks walked in the forest and picked some flowers .
- 3. We have been living in extraordinary times in a global " goldilocks " economy not too hot , not too cold .
- 4. Goldilocks was eight years old now .
- 5. So how exactly would the goldilocks fabric work ?