goldilocks
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diˌlɒks noun, plural gold·i·locks.
(used with a singular verb) a person with golden hair.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a Eurasian plant, Aster linosyris (or Linosyris vulgaris), with clusters of small yellow flowers: family Asteraceae (composites) |
| 2. | See also buttercup a Eurasian ranunculaceous woodland plant, Ranunculus auricomus, with yellow flowers |
| 3. | (sometimes capital) a person, esp a girl, with light blond hair |
| 4. | (modifier; sometimes capital) not prone to extremes of temperature, volatility, etc: a goldilocks planet; a goldilocks economy |
| [(for sense 4): C20: from the fairy tale Goldilocks and the Three Bears, in which the heroine prefers the porridge that is neither too hot nor too cold] | |
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Word Origin & History
Goldilocks
name for a person with bright yellow hair, 1550, from adj. form of gold + lock in the hair sense. 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 naming of the girl as Goldilocks is only attested from c.1904.
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Example sentences
Goldilocks and the three bears have been called together to help us develop patterns.
Goldilocks doesn't shrink back when the bears bluster in.
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