subs. phr. (colloquial).—1. A man, woman, or thing of decided and undoubted merit. Cf., GOOD-GIRL.
1836. HOOD, Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg [Works (1846), vi. 254]. A GOOD ’UN to look at but bad to go.
1854. MARTIN and AYTOUN, Bon Gaultier Ballads. ‘The Dirge of a Drinker.’ Like a GOOD ’UN as he is.
1891. N. GOULD, The Double Event, p. 160. He’s a real GOOD UN, and when his party plank the stuff down it’s generally a moral.
2. (colloquial).—An expression of derisive unbelief: e.g., a lie. See WHOPPER.
