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goody¹

  • /ˈɡʊdi/

Rhymes with -ʊdi

Where it comes from

From good + -y (suffix forming colloquialisms), influenced by the noun (Etymology 2).

interjection goodie

  1. informal Used to indicate pleasure or delight. Oh goody, ice cream!

    Similar: yippee

goody²

  • /ˈɡʊdi/

Rhymes with -ʊdi

noun goodies · goodie

  1. informal A 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 smoke their last cigar.
  2. informal Any 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.
  3. Ireland Pudding made by boiling bread in milk with sugar and spices.
  4. alternative, informal Alternative form of goodie (“hero, good character in a story”). Eventually he would throw the goody out of the ring, at which point the goody lost his rag, climbed back into the ring and gave the baddy a good pasting. He was declared the winner, and everybody was satisfied.
  5. colloquial, 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. 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.
  6. An American fish, the lafayette or spot.

goody³

  • /ˈɡʊdi/

Rhymes with -ʊdi

adjective goodier · goodiest

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

    Similar: goody-goody

goody⁴

  • /ˈɡʊdi/

Rhymes with -ʊdi

Where it comes from

Clipping of goodwife + -y (diminutive suffix). Compare hussy from housewife, the obsolete pronunciation /ˈmɪdɪf/ of midwife, and less directly, missus from mistress.

noun goodies

  1. obsolete Goodwife, a 17th-century Puritan honorific for an adult woman.

Goody⁵

Where it comes from

From Middle English Godeve (female given name), from Old English Godġifu (female given name), from god + ġifu. Doublet of Godiva.

proper noun Goodys · Goodey

  1. countable, uncountable A 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.
  2. countable, uncountable A unisex given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage
  3. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Pike County, Kentucky, United States.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: kickshaw, dainty, delicacy, treat, sweet, cookie, swell, cool, brilliant, yeah, purty, great, snazzy, neat, nifty, nice

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intj expression of pleasure; yippee

Portuguêsoba
Русскийздо́рово zdórovo, кла́ссно klássno, ништя́к ništják, класс! klass!, ура́ urá

noun A small amount of something good to eat

DeutschLeckerbissen, etwas Leckeres, Süßigkeit
Русскийла́комство lákomstvo, вкусня́шка vkusnjáška

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@misc{goody_2026,
  title = {goody},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/goody},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}