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goody
1[ good-ee ]
noun
- Usually goodies. something especially attractive or pleasing, especially cake, cookies, or candy.
- something that causes delight or satisfaction:
A record collector played some goodies for me on his phonograph.
interjection
- good (used to express childish delight).
goody
2[ good-ee ]
adjective
goody
3[ good-ee ]
noun
- Archaic. a polite term of address for a woman of humble social standing.
goody
1/ ˈɡʊdɪ /
interjection
- a child's exclamation of pleasure and approval
noun
- short for goody-goody
- informal.the hero in a film, book, etc
- something particularly pleasant to have or (often) to eat See also goodies
goody
2/ ˈɡʊdɪ /
noun
- archaic.a married woman of low rank: used as a title
Goody Two-Shoes
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Example Sentences
Nevertheless, some emergency rooms are even offering Vicodin “goody bags” to improve their ratings.
And now here we are, some of us anyway, looking back with syrupy nostalgia to the Sam Goody days!
The goody-goody Jagger started becoming more like Richards and began calling himself “Mick.”
It's probably a very tasteful goody bag for some very tasteful ladies.
Obama and the goody-goody Democrats desperately want to believe the Republicans are capable of a compromise on health care.
Goody Wallis has asked me to write to her, and I shall certainly do so at once, distinctly forbidding it.
Oh, you dear old Goody Goody, she cried, springing to her feet and throwing her arms around Tessa.
You have here a triall of her fidelity, that Goody Busie-body vaunted of.
"Goody Oliver" was executed as a witch on November 16th, 1688.
One said contemptuously, "Oh, you're a goody-goody, parson!"
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