Goody

Quick meaning: Goody is an interjection meaning (informal) Used to indicate pleasure or delight.

Meaning

(informal) Used to indicate pleasure or delight.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

Oh goody, ice cream!

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.

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.

Word Forms

• goodie
• goodies
• goodier
• goodiest

Synonyms for goody

Depending on context, synonyms include yippee, goody-goody, dainty, delicacy, treat, kickshaw.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include kickshaw, dainty, delicacy, treat, sweet, cookie.

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