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goody

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Interjection, Noun
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good=y

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun goody has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

goodyn. 
  •  A bonbon, cake, or the like; -- usually in the pl.  [1913 Webster]
  •  An American fish; the lafayette or spot.  [1913 Webster]
goodyn. [Prob. contr. from goodwife.].
     Goodwife; -- a low term of civility or sport.  [1913 Webster]
goodya. 
     Weakly or sentimentally good; affectedly good; -- often in the reduplicated form goody-goody.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

goody, n. & int.
--n. (also goodie) (pl. -ies)
1 colloq. a good or favoured person, esp. a hero in a story, film, etc.
2 (usu. in pl.) something good or attractive, esp. to eat.
3 = GOODY-GOODY n.
--int. expressing childish delight.

goody, n. (pl. goodies) archaic (often as a title prefixed to a surname) an elderly woman of humble station (Goody Blake).

Etymology
for GOODWIFE: cf. HUSSY

THESAURUS

goody

Tartuffian, Tartuffish, affected, ambrosia, better half, bonne bouche, canting, cate, choice morsel, common-law wife, concubine, dainty, delicacy, dessert, false, feme, feme covert, goodwife, goody-goody, helpmate, helpmeet, holier-than-thou, hypocritical, insincere, kickshaw, lady, manna, married woman, matron, mealymouthed, morsel, nectar, old lady, old woman, pharisaic, pietistic, pious, rib, sanctified, sanctimonious, savory, self-righteous, sniveling, squaw, tidbit, titbit, treat, unctuous, wedded wife, wife, woman

ROGET THESAURUS

goody

Woman

N woman, she, her, female, petticoat, feminality, muliebrity, womanhood, womankind, the sex, the fair, fair sex, softer sex, weaker vessel, dame, madam, madame, mistress, Mrs, lady, donna belle, matron, dowager, goody, gammer, Frau, frow, Vrouw, rani, good woman, good wife, squaw, wife, matronage, matronhood, bachelor girl, new woman, feminist, suffragette, suffragist, nymph, wench, grisette, girl, sissy, betty, cot betty, cotquean, henhussy, mollycoddle, muff, old woman, hen, bitch, sow, doe, roe, mare, she goat, Nanny goat, tabita, ewe, cow, lioness, tigress, vixen, gynecaeum, estrogen, oestrogen, consanguinity &c, paternity, lesbian, dyke, female, she-, feminine, womanly, ladylike, matronly, maidenly, wifely, womanish, effeminate, unmanly, gynecic, gynaecic, Pron, she, her, hers, ', a perfect woman nobly planned, a lovely lady garmented in white, das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan, earth's noblest thing, a woman perfected, es de vidrio la mujer, she moves a goddess and she looks a queen, the beauty of a lovely woman is like music, varium et mutabile semper femina, woman is the lesser man.

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