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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GOOD'Y, n. A low term of civility; as goody Dobson.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: something considered choice to eat [syn: dainty, delicacy, goody, kickshaw, treat]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: alteration of goodwife Date: 1559 archaic a usually married woman of lowly station — used as a title preceding a surname II. noun or goodie (plural goodies) Date: 1756 1. something that is particularly attractive, pleasurable, good, or desirable 2. chiefly British one that is good; especially an opponent of the villain (as in a motion picture)

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. 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. 2. 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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Goody Good"y, a. Weakly or sentimentally good; affectedly good; -- often in the reduplicated form goody-goody. [Colloq.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Spot Spot, n. [Cf. Scot. & D. spat, Dan. spette, Sw. spott spittle, slaver; from the root of E. spit. See Spit to eject from the mouth, and cf. Spatter.] 1. A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored. Out, damned spot! Out, I say! --Shak. 2. A stain on character or reputation; something that soils purity; disgrace; reproach; fault; blemish. Yet Chloe, sure, was formed without a spot. --Pope. 3. A small part of a different color from the main part, or from the ground upon which it is; as, the spots of a leopard; the spots on a playing card. 4. A small extent of space; a place; any particular place. ``Fixed to one spot.'' --Otway. That spot to which I point is Paradise. --Milton. ``A jolly place,'' said he, ``in times of old! But something ails it now: the spot is cursed.'' --Wordsworth. 5. (Zo["o]l.) A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above its beak. 6. (Zo["o]l.) (a) A sci[ae]noid food fish (Liostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. It has a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides. Called also goody, Lafayette, masooka, and old wife. (b) The southern redfish, or red horse, which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail. See Redfish. 7. pl. Commodities, as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate delivery. [Broker's Cant] Crescent spot (Zo["o]l.), any butterfly of the family Melit[ae]id[ae] having crescent-shaped white spots along the margins of the red or brown wings. Spot lens (Microscopy), a condensing lens in which the light is confined to an annular pencil by means of a small, round diaphragm (the spot), and used in dark-field ilumination; -- called also spotted lens. Spot rump (Zo["o]l.), the Hudsonian godwit (Limosa h[ae]mastica). Spots on the sun. (Astron.) See Sun spot, ander Sun. On, or Upon, the spot, immediately; before moving; without changing place. It was determined upon the spot. --Swift. Syn: Stain; flaw; speck; blot; disgrace; reproach; fault; blemish; place; site; locality.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Goody Good"y, n.; pl. Goodies. [Prob. contr. from goodwife.] Goodwife; -- a low term of civility or sport.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

also goodie(goodies) 1. You can refer to pleasant, exciting, or attractive things as goodies. (INFORMAL) ...a little bag of goodies... N-COUNT: usu pl 2. You can refer to the heroes or the morally good characters in a film or story as the goodies. You can also refer to the goodies in a situation in real life. (BRIT INFORMAL; in AM, usually use good guys) ...the thriller, a genre which depends on goodies and baddies... = good guy ? baddy N-COUNT: usu pl

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Gammer. See goodwife.

Moby Thesaurus

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