| Goody | n.; pl. Goodies 1. A bonbon, cake, or the like; -- usually in the pl. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ] 2. (Zool.) An American fish; the lafayette or spot. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Goody | n.; pl. Goodies [ Prob. contr. from goodwife. ] Goodwife; -- a low term of civility or sport. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Goody | a. Weakly or sentimentally good; affectedly good; -- often in the reduplicated form goody-goody. [ Colloq. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ] |
| Goody-goody | a. Mawkishly or weakly good; exhibiting goodness with silliness. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ] |
| goody-goody | n. A person who is weakly, sentimentally, or affectedly good; a goody-goody person; -- sometimes used to refer to person who acts with good intentions but who bunglingly does more harm than good. The latter may sometimes be deprecatingly referred to as a goo-goo. [ Colloq. ] [ PJC ] |
| Goodyship | n. The state or quality of a goody or goodwife [ Jocose ] Hudibraus. |
