Goody

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Weakly good in morals or religion; characterized by good intentions or pious phrasing without vital force; pious but futile; nambypamby: often reduplicated, goody-good, goody-goody.
  • noun. A sweetmeat; a bonbon: most frequently used in the plural.
  • noun. A term of civility applied to women in humble life: as, goody Dobson.
  • noun. In some colleges, a woman who makes beds, sweeps, and takes general care of students' rooms.
  • noun. The spot or lafayette, a sciænoid fish, Liostomus xanthurus: more fully called Cape May goody.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A bonbon, cake, or the like; -- usually in the pl.
  • noun. An American fish; the lafayette or spot.
  • noun. Goodwife; -- a low term of civility or sport.
  • adjective. Weakly or sentimentally good; affectedly good; -- often in the reduplicated form goody-goody.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • interjection. Used to indicate pleasure or delight.
  • noun. A small amount of something good to eat.
  • noun. Any small, usually free, item.
  • noun. shortening of goodwife, a 17th century puritan honorific.
  • noun. protagonist or hero
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  • noun. something considered choice to eat
  • Word Usage
    "And when she remembered how _glad_ she'd been to see the first snow, how she and little Mark had run to the window to see the first flakes, and had hollered, Oh goody, _goody!"
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    Woodie  Woody  goodie  woodie  woody  
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    cracker  gadget  pastry  snack  tidbit  
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