goody
/ˈɡʊdi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.04 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
That which is good, the good part of something, which one desires to extract or use up.
Colloquial
adj
Synonym of goody-goody (“mawkishly good; weakly benevolent or pious”).
Example Sentences
- "Oh goody, ice cream!"
- "[…] 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."
- "She slid the goody out into her hand and gave a little aww. He'd baked her a dark chocolate cookie with a white heart swirled on the top. “You are so sweet. I'm going to save this for later, when I need a little pick-me-up, ..."
- "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."
- "Eventually he would throw the goody out of the ring, at which point the goody lost his rag, climbed back into the ring and gave the baddy a good pasting. He was declared the winner, and everybody was satisfied."
- "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."
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Wiktionary places this term in Food.