Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Weakly good in morals or religion; characterized by good intentions or pious phrasing without vital force; pious but futile; nambypamby: often reduplicated, goody-good, goody-goody.
- noun A sweetmeat; a bonbon: most frequently used in the plural.
- noun A term of civility applied to women in humble life: as, goody Dobson.
- noun In some colleges, a woman who makes beds, sweeps, and takes general care of students' rooms.
- noun The spot or lafayette, a sciænoid fish, Liostomus xanthurus: more fully called
Cape May goody .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun colloq. A bonbon, cake, or the like; -- usually in the pl.
- noun (Zoöl.) An American fish; the lafayette or spot.
- noun Goodwife; -- a low term of civility or sport.
- adjective colloq. Weakly or sentimentally good; affectedly good; -- often in the reduplicated form
goody-goody .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- interjection Used to indicate
pleasure ordelight . - noun A small amount of something
good toeat . - noun Any small, usually free, item.
- noun obsolete shortening of
goodwife , a 17th centurypuritan honorific . - noun
protagonist orhero
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun something considered choice to eat
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Examples
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And when she remembered how _glad_ she'd been to see the first snow, how she and little Mark had run to the window to see the first flakes, and had hollered, Oh goody, _goody!
The Brimming Cup Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918
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Go to Source Watch and what I call the goody bag of corporate research.
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Go to Source Watch and what I call the goody bag of corporate research.
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Ronnie Campbell, a north-eastern MP, was most disobliging about Branson, whom he described as a "goody two-shoes" who might very well ditch the north-east and move the operation to London, or even offshore.
A rocky ride in the Commons for bank sale | Simon Hoggart's sketch 2011
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She hated do-gooders, those she called the goody-goodies, but her own goodness surrounded her like a tangible, and visible magnetic field.
The Satan Bug MacLean, Alistair 1962
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She hated do-gooders, those she called the goody-goodies, but her own goodness surrounded her like a tangible, and visible magnetic field.
The Satan Bug MacLean, Alistair 1962
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She hated do-gooders, those she called the goody-goodies, but her own goodness surrounded her like a tangible, and visible magnetic field.
The Satan Bug MacLean, Alistair 1962
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Marjorie put on that little important air which sometimes made her brothers and sisters call her goody-goody.
The Children of Wilton Chase L. T. Meade 1884
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Dr. Cutler's team took pains to keep their activities hidden from what one of the researchers described as "goody organizations that might raise a lot of smoke."
NYT > Home Page By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. 2011
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Dr. Cutler's team took pains to keep its activities hidden from what one of the researchers described as "goody organizations that might raise a lot of smoke."
NYT > Home Page By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. 2011
sonofgroucho commented on the word goody
Also opposite of baddy.
January 21, 2008