goodify

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English

Etymology

From good +‎ -ify.

  • (kill a black person): Coined in reference to the phrase "the only good nigger is a dead nigger", a popular saying among white supremacists.

Verb

goodify (third-person singular simple present goodifies, present participle goodifying, simple past and past participle goodified)

  1. (transitive, rare, nonstandard) To make good; to improve.
    Antonyms: deteriorate, worsen; shittify (nonstandard)
    • 1879, The International Review, volume 6, page 712:
      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.
    • 2015, Cyrus Lakdawala, Tal: Move by Move, London: Everyman Chess, →ISBN, page 301:
      Black may be planning to 'goodify' his bad bishop with a future ...♗g5, in which case he has the ...hxg5 option.
    • 2018, Robert Lasalle-Klein, Jon Sobrino: Spiritual Writings:
      Ellacu, if you will allow me the expression—which I believe is a neologism—those who are grateful have the ability “to goodify reality” [“buenear la realidad”].
  2. (transitive, Internet slang, offensive, ethnic slur) To kill or murder a black person.
    • 2015 January 24, Fred Oinka, “Scum nigger shot his family, killing 3, then goodified himself”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-23:
    • 2017 March 16, Rick Mathers, “"You are shooting me!"”, in soc.culture.african-american (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-23:
      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.
    • 2018 February 21, Hansi Gehirn-Schaden, “Anus lipped teendusa posing with guns for social media was goodified by its boonfriend”, in talk.politics.guns (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-23:
      An 18-year-old trigger teennigger, Dakale Bowman aka Sean Bowman, was arrested Monday and charged with murder in the goodification of 16-year-old anus lipped teendusa Taiyania Thompson that was ventilated in an apepartment near Gallaudet University on Thursday and gave a bat its wings the following Sunday, January 28, authorities said.
    • 2019 April 10, Robert Wolfe, “Nigger pastor kills tranny in Detroit”, in alt.checkmate (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-23:
      Pastor Weathers goodified nigger bucksow Slough with a single gunshot to the chest.
    • 2020 September 10, Siri Cruise, “Chimpopo goodifies and aggravated knife weilding groid”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-23:

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