what the goodyear

English

Phrase

what the goodyear!

1. (dated, obsolete) An expression of annoyance, impatience or surprise.
   • 1768, Charles JOHNSON (Dramatic Writer.), Louis Du Guernier, The Country Lasses, Etc. [With a Plate by Louis Du Guernier.], page 41:

     Sir John! Codſo! Let me have you do it inſtantly--What the goodyear.

   • 1842, William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier, The Works - The Text Formed from an Entirely New Collation of the Old Editions: with the Various Readings, Notes, a Life of the Poet, and a History of the Early English Stage · Volume 4, page 386:

     Host. On my word, captain, there's none such here. What the goodyear! do you think I would deny her?

   • 1851, John Campbell Baron Campbell, The Lives of the Lords Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England, From the Earliest Times Till the Reign of King George IV., page 463:

     "What, the goodyear, Mr. More, I marvel that you, who have been hitherto always taken for a wise man

   • 1896, Walter Scott, The fortunes of Nigel, page 26:

     'Now, what the goodyear! are we to send you down to Scotland as thin as you came up?

Alternative forms

• what a goodyear