goody

Meanings

1. Used to indicate pleasure or delight.

1. A small amount of something good to eat.
2. Any small, usually free, item.
3. Pudding made by boiling bread in milk with sugar and spices.
4. Alternative form of goodie (“hero, good character in a story”).
5. 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.

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

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

1. A surname from Old English.
2. A unisex given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage
3. An unincorporated community in Pike County, Kentucky, United States.

Etymology

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