goody

Meaning

Intj

Used to indicate pleasure or delight.

Noun

1. (informal) A small amount of something good to eat.
2. (informal) Any small, usually free, item.
3. (Ireland) Pudding made by boiling bread in milk with sugar and spices.
4. (alt-of, alternative, informal) Alternative form of goodie (“hero, good character in a story”).
5. (colloquial) That which is good, the good part of something, which one desires to extract or use up.
6. An American fish, the lafayette or spot.

Adj

Synonym of goody-goody (“mawkishly good; weakly benevolent or pious”).

Noun

Goodwife, a 17th-century Puritan honorific for an adult woman.

Synonyms

delicacy

treat

kickshaw

dainty

sweet

goody-goody

titbit

candy

🍬

sweetmeat

sanctimonious person

tidbit

yummy

hard candy

exquisity

goodie

bonbon

tidbit

cake

🍰

cate

exquisiteness

hypocrite

hypocritical

lozenge

pastry

sanctimonious

sweetie

Translations

guloseima

Bonbon

leccornia

friandise

golosina

🍬

squisitezza

che bellezza

ghiottoneria

golosità

Delikatesse

Gaumenschmaus

Gaumenkitzel

Schmankerl

Leckerei

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɡʊdi/

Etymology

From good + -y (suffix forming colloquialisms), influenced by the noun (Etymology 2).