goody
nounEtymology From good + -y (nominal suffix).
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Informal A small amount of something good to eat.
- […] when the pleasant time of night is come, and the stewardess is tucking up the ladies, and putting oranges and other goodies under their pillows, and the menfolk assemble in the capstan house to smoke their last cigar.1877, Official Guide and Album of the Cunard Steamship Company, page 95:
- She slid the goody out into her hand and gave a little aww. He'd baked her a dark chocolate cookie with a white heart swirled on the top. “You are so sweet. I'm going to save this for later, when I need a little pick-me-up, ...2016, Gail Chianese, Fiancé for Keeps, Lyrical Press, →ISBN:
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Informal Any small, usually free, item.
- The new tax bill has something for everyone, it's true: a cornucopia of savings for the middle class, plenty of goodies for the rich and poor--and a dagger in the back for upper-income wage slaves.1997 August 4, Daniel Kadlec, “The Tax Bill: Money In Motion”, in CNN:
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Ireland Pudding made by boiling bread in milk with sugar and spices.
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Alternative, Informal Alternative form of goodie (“hero, good character in a story”).
- Eventually he would throw the goody out of the ring, at which point the goody lost his rag, climbed back into the ring and gave the baddy a good pasting. He was declared the winner, and everybody was satisfied.2011, Eddie Bennett, Weight for it: A life of lifting, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 91:
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Colloquial That which is good, the good part of something, which one desires to extract or use up.
In phrases with a verb + "the goody out of"
- Use flour to thicken the gravy and get all the goody out of the pan ... make the gravy right in it. I know of nothing that beats mashed potatoes with this.1962, Phil DeGraff, Birches, Beaches & Belches:
- But you sure took the goody out of the converter. That is, physically you didn't do any damage, the converter just doesn't work chemically any more. If you have to be "emissions-legal" some day, you'll have to replace the converter.1979, Popular Science, page 26:
4 more examples
- When I was a kid I would never throw away my gum until I'd “chewed all the goody out of it." And so it is with Eden joys. To get the most out of these wonder-filled times — both large and small pleasures — we need to practice ...1998, Becky Freeman, A View from the Porch Swing: Musings on a Complicated Search for the Simple Life, B & H Publishing Group, →ISBN:
- You have to put the time in to get the goody out. That's what he said. He talkin bout God and shit and then he come talkin bout the goody! He so country sometime! [A beat.] I been thinkin bout if I wanna keep smokin that Pearl Cleage.2001, Glenn Young, The Best American Short Plays 1999-2000, Hal Leonard Corporation, →ISBN, page 48:
- She loved to eat raw cake dough and she enjoyed licking icing off the utensils and getting all the goody from the inside of the icing cans. The yellow cakes came from box mixes - she didn't start from scratch - but […]2003, Jerry Pilcher, Gloria's Song: A Celebration of Living in the Face of Cancer, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 29:
- "Have you ever watched sheep grazing in a field?" Jill asked. "They pull off a small clump of grass with their teeth, and then they begin to slowly chew. Then they chew, and chew, and chew, and chew. They chew all the goody out[…]"2003, Brenda Waggoner, Fairy Tale Faith: Living in the Meantime When You Expected Happily Ever After, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 149:
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An American fish, the lafayette or spot.
- Derived terms
- goody bag