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good⋅y

1  [good-ee] noun, plural good⋅ies, interjection Informal.
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–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).
Also, goodie.

Origin:
1750–60; good + -y 2 , as n. suffix
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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

good⋅y

3  [good-ee]
–noun, plural good⋅ies.
Archaic. a polite term of address for a woman of humble social standing.
Origin:
1550–60; good(wife) + -y 2 ; cf. hussy
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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.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

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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