good-looker

American  

[good-look-er] / ˈgʊdˈlʊk ər /

noun

Informal.

1. a person with a pleasingly attractive appearance.

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good-looker British  

noun

1. a handsome or pretty person

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Etymology

Origin of good-looker

1890–95, good-look(ing) or good look(s) + -er ¹

Example Sentences

But Manager Johnson's best-selling good-looker dates from the regime of his predecessor, Giulio Gatti-Casazza.

From Time Magazine Archive

“A good-looker like Loma ought’n to wear black all the time,” Grandpa interrupted.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

He was a good-looker, with sort of curly brown hair, nice eyes, a romantic nose, and cheeks like a pair of twenty-four-dollar American Beauties, and his pictures looked fine and dandy in the papers.

From The New Boy at Hilltop by Barbour, Ralph Henry

"If she ain't a good-looker, why do you love her?"

From The Ten-foot Chain or, Can Love Survive the Shackles? A Unique Symposium by Abdullah, Achmed

But when we paired off to stroll along boy and girl together, I noted that Louis had invariably picked the good-looker and left to me the little lame sister.

From John Barleycorn by London, Jack

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