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good cess

noun

Etymology

Uncertain, and also apparently varied, depending on context. Apart from the etymology of cess, as being from "success", "access" etc, some of the usages of good cess appear to refer to cesspool, as a place of suitable disposal.

Definitions

  1. Good luck, favourable outcome, happiness

    • Güde cess tü his sawl, poor blid! He hadden much ov thease world's güdes yer. He died game, 'e did, arter awl!
    • Midland has had good cess with using minute commercials eight television stations, cited as one example of modernizing its advertising.

  2. Good riddance, a suitable dismissal or disposal of something worthless or harmful.

    • "It be nawbody," said John, "vor us to make a fush about. Belong to t'other zide o' the moor, and come staling shape to our zide. Red Jem Hannaford his name. Thank God for him to be hanged, lad; and good cess to his soul, for craikin' zo."

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No curated loop yet for good cess. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA