Sekirov Dictionary

goody

/ˈɡʊdi/

noun 6
exclamation 1
adjective 1
forms 3

noun6

(informal) A small amount of something good to eat.
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(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. — 1997
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(informal) 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. — 1962
(Ireland) Pudding made by boiling bread in milk with sugar and spices.
An American fish, the lafayette or spot.
(no longer used) Goodwife, a 17th-century Puritan honorific for an adult woman.

exclamation1

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(informal) Used to indicate pleasure or delight.
- Oh goody, ice cream!

adjective1

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

forms

goodies · goodier · goodiest

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