goody means A surname from Old English. Lexicurio rates it Distinctive — a strength score of 67 out of 100.
goody is pronounced /ˈɡʊdi/.
name
- A surname from Old English.“Rankin sanctioned Ayala $3,000 and kicked him off the lawsuit after the lawyer admitted incorporating the hallucinated AI-generated cases in the brief. Morgan and Goody were sanctioned $1,000 each.”
- A unisex given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage
- An unincorporated community in Pike County, Kentucky, United States.
intj
- Used to indicate pleasure or delight.“Oh goody, ice cream!”
noun
- A small amount of something good to eat.“[…] when the pleasant time of night is come, and the stewardess is tucking up the ladies, and putting oranges and other goodies under their pillows, and the menfolk assemble in the capstan house to smoke their last cigar.”
- Any small, usually free, item.“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.”
- Pudding made by boiling bread in milk with sugar and spices.
- That which is good, the good part of something, which one desires to extract or use up.“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.”
- An American fish, the lafayette or spot.
- Goodwife, a 17th-century Puritan honorific for an adult woman.
adj
- Synonym of goody-goody (“mawkishly good; weakly benevolent or pious”).