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gooding (iou)



gooding verbal noun. L15.
[from GOOD verb + -ING1. Sense 2 prob. from GOOD noun.]
The action of improving something (esp. land by manuring); manure. obsolete exc. Scot. L15.
Orig., the practice of begging. Now only local, the custom of collecting alms on St Thomas's Day (21 December). M16.