goody
Short definition from Wiktionary
Interjection
- Used to indicate pleasure or delight.
Noun
- A small amount of something good to eat.
- Any small, usually free, item.
- Pudding made by boiling bread in milk with sugar and spices.
- Alternative form of goodie (“hero, good character in a story”).
- That which is good, the good part of something, which one desires to extract or use up.
- An American fish, the lafayette or spot.
- Goodwife, a 17th-century Puritan honorific for an adult woman.
Adjective
- Synonym of goody-goody (“mawkishly good; weakly benevolent or pious”).
Proper noun
- A surname from Old English.
- A unisex given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage
- An unincorporated community in Pike County, Kentucky, United States.
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