/ˈɡʊdi/
OriginFrom good + -y (suffix forming colloquialisms), influenced by the noun (Etymology 2).
- informalUsed to indicate pleasure or delight.
- informalA small amount of something good to eat.
“[…] when the pleasant time of night is come, and the stewardess is tucking up the ladies, and putting oranges and other goodies under their pillows, and the menfolk assemble in the capstan house to sm”
“She slid the goody out into her hand and gave a little aww. He'd baked her a dark chocolate cookie with a white heart swirled on the top. “You are so sweet. I'm going to save this for later, when I ne”
- informalAny small, usually free, item.
“The new tax bill has something for everyone, it's true: a cornucopia of savings for the middle class, plenty of goodies for the rich and poor--and a dagger in the back for upper-income wage slaves.”
- IrelandPudding made by boiling bread in milk with sugar and spices.
- colloquialThat which is good, the good part of something, which one desires to extract or use up.
“Use flour to thicken the gravy and get all the goody out of the pan ... make the gravy right in it. I know of nothing that beats mashed potatoes with this.”
“But you sure took the goody out of the converter. That is, physically you didn't do any damage, the converter just doesn't work chemically any more. If you have to be "emissions-legal" some day, you'l”
“When I was a kid I would never throw away my gum until I'd “chewed all the goody out of it." And so it is with Eden joys. To get the most out of these wonder-filled times — both large and small pleasu”
- An American fish, the lafayette or spot.
- obsoleteGoodwife, a 17th-century Puritan honorific for an adult woman.
- Synonym of goody-goody (“mawkishly good; weakly benevolent or pious”).
- countable, uncountableA surname from Old English.
“Rankin sanctioned Ayala $3,000 and kicked him off the lawsuit after the lawyer admitted incorporating the hallucinated AI-generated cases in the brief. Morgan and Goody were sanctioned $1,000 each.”
- countable, uncountableA unisex given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage
- countable, uncountableAn unincorporated community in Pike County, Kentucky, United States.
Formsgoodie(alternative) · goodies(plural) · goodier(comparative) · goodiest(superlative) · Goodys(plural) · Goodey(alternative)