"goody" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈɡʊdi/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-goody.wav [Southern-England] Forms: more goody [comparative], most goody [superlative]
Rhymes: -ʊdi Etymology: good + -y Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|good|y}} good + -y Head templates: {{en-adj}} goody (comparative more goody, superlative most goody)
  1. Synonym of goody-goody (“mawkishly good; weakly benevolent or pious”) Categories (topical): Foods Synonyms: goody-goody [synonym, synonym-of] Related terms: goody bag, goody-goodiness, goody goody, goody gumdrops, goody two-shoes, goody two shoes, goody-two-shoes
    Sense id: en-goody-en-adj-zuoJIle~ Disambiguation of Foods: 25 8 17 7 13 2 6 9 13 Categories (other): English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -y Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 12 5 22 17 18 2 9 2 13 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y: 15 12 22 15 18 2 12 4
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Interjection

IPA: /ˈɡʊdi/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-goody.wav [Southern-England]
Rhymes: -ʊdi Etymology: good + -y Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|good|y}} good + -y
  1. (informal) Used to indicate pleasure or delight. Tags: informal
    Sense id: en-goody-en-intj-xDci-d0A Categories (other): English terms suffixed with -y Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y: 15 12 22 15 18 2 12 4
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /ˈɡʊdi/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-goody.wav [Southern-England] Forms: goodies [plural]
Rhymes: -ʊdi Etymology: good + -y Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|good|y}} good + -y Head templates: {{en-noun}} goody (plural goodies)
  1. (informal) A small amount of something good to eat. Tags: informal Translations (A small amount of something good to eat): лакомство (lakomstvo) [neuter] (Bulgarian), Leckerbissen [masculine] (German), etwas Leckeres [neuter] (German), Süßigkeit (english: sweet, candy) [feminine] (German), smakołyk [masculine] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-goody-en-noun-iFkHw59M Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -y Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 14 4 31 13 12 2 4 1 19 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 12 5 22 17 18 2 9 2 13 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y: 15 12 22 15 18 2 12 4 Disambiguation of 'A small amount of something good to eat': 88 5 3 1 3 0
  2. (informal) Any small, usually free, item. Tags: informal
    Sense id: en-goody-en-noun-5t3QVpxz Categories (other): English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -y Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 12 5 22 17 18 2 9 2 13 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y: 15 12 22 15 18 2 12 4
  3. (Ireland) Pudding made by boiling bread in milk with sugar and spices. Tags: Ireland
    Sense id: en-goody-en-noun-eSOkhjSB Categories (other): Irish English, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -y Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 12 5 22 17 18 2 9 2 13 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y: 15 12 22 15 18 2 12 4
  4. (informal) Alternative form of goodie (“hero, good character in a story”) Tags: alt-of, alternative, informal Alternative form of: goodie (extra: hero, good character in a story)
    Sense id: en-goody-en-noun-YCFYyCa1
  5. (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. Tags: colloquial
    Sense id: en-goody-en-noun-pBP1sEm6 Categories (other): English terms suffixed with -y Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y: 15 12 22 15 18 2 12 4
  6. An American fish, the lafayette or spot. Categories (lifeform): Croakers
    Sense id: en-goody-en-noun-8FsSKRGo Disambiguation of Croakers: 6 2 15 6 8 2 2 48 10
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /ˈɡʊdi/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-goody.wav [Southern-England] Forms: goodies [plural]
Rhymes: -ʊdi Etymology: Clipping of goodwife (Compare hussy from housewife, the obsolete pronunciation /ˈmɪdɪf/ of midwife, and less directly, missus from mistress.) Etymology templates: {{clipping|en|goodwife}} Clipping of goodwife, {{m|en|hussy}} hussy, {{m|en|housewife}} housewife, {{m|en|midwife}} midwife, {{m|en|missus}} missus, {{m|en|mistress}} mistress Head templates: {{en-noun}} goody (plural goodies)
  1. (obsolete) Goodwife, a 17th-century Puritan honorific for an adult woman. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-goody-en-noun-P-CAs~Ix Categories (other): English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 12 5 22 17 18 2 9 2 13
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1979, Popular Science, page 26",
          "text": "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'll have to replace the converter.",
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          "ref": "1998, Becky Freeman, A View from the Porch Swing: Musings on a Complicated Search for the Simple Life, B & H Publishing Group",
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          "ref": "2001, Glenn Young, The Best American Short Plays 1999-2000, Hal Leonard Corporation, page 48",
          "text": "You have to put the time in to get the goody out. That's what he said. He talkin bout God and shit and then he come talkin bout the goody! He so country sometime! [A beat.] I been thinkin bout if I wanna keep smokin that Pearl Cleage.",
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          "ref": "2003, Jerry Pilcher, Gloria's Song: A Celebration of Living in the Face of Cancer, AuthorHouse, page 29",
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          "ref": "2003, Brenda Waggoner, Fairy Tale Faith: Living in the Meantime When You Expected Happily Ever After, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., page 149",
          "text": "\"Have you ever watched sheep grazing in a field?\" Jill asked. \"They pull off a small clump of grass with their teeth, and then they begin to slowly chew. Then they chew, and chew, and chew, and chew. They chew all the goody out[…]\"",
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          "ref": "2012, Bobby Nimocks, “BALLAD OF THE CHRISTMAS BLUES”, in Filets: A Literary Treat for Gourmet Appetites, Author House, page 56",
          "text": "All the pretty notes are gone out of music, Nothing but bad tunes and sounds, When you take all the goody out of anything pretty, What you got left is worse 'n coffee grounds.",
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          "ref": "2017, Robert Greer, Astride a Pink Horse: A Thriller, Open Road Media",
          "text": "Shot herself in the head with a .38 long-barrel after our marriage deep-sixed, her military career tanked, and she finally figured out that her lover boy had gotten the goody out of her and was moving on.",
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          "text": "And here he was standing beside a shrimp who moved mountains and dug the goody out from inside them and covered it over, acting like he'd done the world a favor. “It's helpful for me to do this in stages,” Hollis said.",
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          "ref": "2020, Maxwell Morgan, Tales of the Mockingbird, Page Publishing, Inc",
          "text": "He picked it up with his snake mouth just to get all the goody out of it. What a beautiful day, he thought as he looked up at the sky. When he had taken in the last slurp of duck egg, he smiled a little snake smile, ...",
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          "ref": "2016, Gail Chianese, Fiancé for Keeps, Lyrical Press",
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          "ref": "1979, Popular Science, page 26",
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        {
          "ref": "1998, Becky Freeman, A View from the Porch Swing: Musings on a Complicated Search for the Simple Life, B & H Publishing Group",
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          "ref": "2003, Jerry Pilcher, Gloria's Song: A Celebration of Living in the Face of Cancer, AuthorHouse, page 29",
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          "ref": "2003, Brenda Waggoner, Fairy Tale Faith: Living in the Meantime When You Expected Happily Ever After, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., page 149",
          "text": "\"Have you ever watched sheep grazing in a field?\" Jill asked. \"They pull off a small clump of grass with their teeth, and then they begin to slowly chew. Then they chew, and chew, and chew, and chew. They chew all the goody out[…]\"",
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          "ref": "2012, Bobby Nimocks, “BALLAD OF THE CHRISTMAS BLUES”, in Filets: A Literary Treat for Gourmet Appetites, Author House, page 56",
          "text": "All the pretty notes are gone out of music, Nothing but bad tunes and sounds, When you take all the goody out of anything pretty, What you got left is worse 'n coffee grounds.",
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          "ref": "2017, Robert Greer, Astride a Pink Horse: A Thriller, Open Road Media",
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          "ref": "2018, Chris Fabry, Under a Cloudless Sky, NavPress",
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          "ref": "2020, Maxwell Morgan, Tales of the Mockingbird, Page Publishing, Inc",
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