goody

IPA: gˈʊdi

noun

  • (informal) A small amount of something good to eat.
  • (informal) Any small, usually free, item.
  • (Ireland) Pudding made by boiling bread in milk with sugar and spices.
  • (colloquial, chiefly in phrases with a verb + "the goody out of") That which is good, the good part of something, which one desires to extract or use up.
  • An American fish, the lafayette or spot.
  • (obsolete) Goodwife, a 17th-century Puritan honorific for an adult woman.
  • A surname from Old English.
  • A unisex given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage
  • (informal) Alternative form of goodie (“hero, good character in a story”) [(informal) A good character in a story, often a hero.]

adjective

  • Synonym of goody-goody (“mawkishly good; weakly benevolent or pious”)
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