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What (who) is goody - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Goodies; Goodys; Goodie; Goody's; Goody (disambiguation); Goodies (album); The Goodies (disambiguation)
goody
n.
Gammer. See goodwife.
Goody
·noun An American fish; the lafayette or spot.
II. Goody ·noun Goodwife;
- a low term of civility or sport.
III. Goody ·noun A bonbon, cake, or the like;
- usually in the ·pl
IV. Goody ·add. ·adj Weakly or sentimentally good; affectedly good;
- often in the reduplicated form goody-goody.
goody
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
Examples of use of goody
1. What is it about Seattle that makes residents so goody–goody, so willing to pass ordinances that require goody–goodiness in others?
2. Len goody goody–two–shoes Goodman." Craig, on the other hand, reckons he is only giving everyone what they deserve.
3. The movie‘s sexuality and disturbing violence are a new thing for Aniston, who has a goody–goody image.
4. Sometimes it seems the whole of Finland is like that – just too goody–goody to be believable.
5. His depiction of Mr Goody Goody reminds you of his part in HAHK and Hum Saath–Saath Hain.