goodify

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.

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 ^[sic] 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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