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good⋅y
1
[goo
d-ee] 
noun, plural good⋅ies, interjection Informal.–noun
| 1. | Usually, goodies. something especially attractive or pleasing, esp. cake, cookies, or candy. |
| 2. | something that causes delight or satisfaction: A record collector played some goodies for me on his phonograph. |
–interjection
| 3. | good (used to express childish delight). |
good⋅y
2 [good-ee] –adjective
| goody-goody. |
Origin:
1805–15; appar. good + -y 2 , with attenuating or pejorative value, prob. influenced by goody two shoes
1805–15; appar. good + -y 2 , with attenuating or pejorative value, prob. influenced by goody two shoes
good⋅y
3 [good-ee] –noun, plural good⋅ies.
| Archaic. a polite term of address for a woman of humble social standing. |
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| good·y 1 (gŏŏd'ē) interj. Used to express delight. n. also good·ie pl. good·ies Something attractive or delectable, especially something sweet to eat. |
| good·y 2 (gŏŏd'ē) n. pl. good·ies Archaic A goodwife. [Shortening and alteration of goodwife.] |
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Goody
Good"y\, n.; pl. Goodies. 1. A bonbon, cake, or the like; -- usually in the pl. [Colloq.] 2. (Zo["o]l.) An American fish; the lafayette or spot.Goody
Good"y\, n.; pl. Goodies. [Prob. contr. from goodwife.] Goodwife; -- a low term of civility or sport.Goody
Good"y\, a. Weakly or sentimentally good; affectedly good; -- often in the reduplicated form goody-goody. [Colloq.]
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Language Translation for : goody
Spanish:
golosinas, chucherías,
German:
die Süßigkeiten (pl.),
Japanese:
ごちそう
goody
"something tasty," 1745, from good; adj. use for "sentimentally proper" is 1830. Goody also used since 1559 as a shortened form of goodwife, a term of civility applied to a married woman in humble life; hence Goody Two-shoes, name of heroine in 1760s children's story who exulted upon acquiring a second shoe.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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