Meaning

(informal) Used to indicate pleasure or delight..

Definitions by Sense

1. (informal) Used to indicate pleasure or delight.
2. (informal) A small amount of something good to eat.
3. (informal) Any small, usually free, item.
4. (Ireland) Pudding made by boiling bread in milk with sugar and spices.
5. (informal) Alternative form of goodie (“hero, good character in a story”).
6. (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.
7. An American fish, the lafayette or spot.
8. Synonym of goody-goody (“mawkishly good; weakly benevolent or pious”).

Example Sentences

Oh goody, ice cream!

[…] 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.

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 need a little pick-me-up, ...

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.

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.

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'll have to replace the converter.

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 pleasures — we need to practice ...

Word Forms

• goodie
• goodies
• goodier
• goodiest

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When Should You Use Goody?

Use goody when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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