'Goody' definitions:
Definition of 'goody'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Goody'
From: GCIDE
- Goody \Good"y\, a. Weakly or sentimentally good; affectedly good; -- often in the reduplicated form goody-goody. [Colloq.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Definition of 'Goody'
From: GCIDE
- Goody \Good"y\, 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]
Definition of 'Goody'
From: GCIDE
- Goody \Good"y\, n.; pl. Goodies. [Prob. contr. from goodwife.] Goodwife; -- a low term of civility or sport. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'goody'
From: GCIDE
- Spot \Spot\ (sp[o^]t), n. [Cf. Scot. & D. spat, Dan. spette, Sw. spott spittle, slaver; from the root of E. spit. See Spit to eject from the mouth, and cf. Spatter.]
- 1. A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored. [1913 Webster]
- Out, damned spot! Out, I say! --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A stain on character or reputation; something that soils purity; disgrace; reproach; fault; blemish. [1913 Webster]
- Yet Chloe, sure, was formed without a spot. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A small part of a different color from the main part, or from the ground upon which it is; as, the spots of a leopard; the spots on a playing card. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A small extent of space; a place; any particular place. "Fixed to one spot." --Otway. [1913 Webster]
- That spot to which I point is Paradise. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- "A jolly place," said he, "in times of old! But something ails it now: the spot is cursed." --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Zool.) A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above its beak. [1913 Webster]
- 6. (Zool.) (a) A sciaenoid food fish (Liostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. It has a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides. Called also goody, Lafayette, masooka, and old wife. (b) The southern redfish, or red horse, which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail. See Redfish. [1913 Webster]
- 7. pl. Commodities, as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate delivery. [Broker's Cant] [1913 Webster]
- Crescent spot (Zool.), any butterfly of the family Melitaeidae having crescent-shaped white spots along the margins of the red or brown wings.
- Spot lens (Microscopy), a condensing lens in which the light is confined to an annular pencil by means of a small, round diaphragm (the spot), and used in dark-field illumination; -- called also spotted lens.
- Spot rump (Zool.), the Hudsonian godwit ({Limosa haemastica}).
- Spots on the sun. (Astron.) See Sun spot, ander Sun.
- On the spot, or Upon the spot, immediately; before moving; without changing place; as, he made his decision on the spot.
- It was determined upon the spot. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Stain; flaw; speck; blot; disgrace; reproach; fault; blemish; place; site; locality. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'goody'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- affected,
- ambrosia,
- better half,
- bonne bouche,
- canting,
- cate,
- choice morsel,
- common-law wife,
- concubine,
- dainty,
- delicacy,
- dessert,
- false,
- feme,
- feme covert,
- goodwife,
- goody-goody,
- helpmate,
- helpmeet,
- holier-than-thou,
- hypocritical,
- insincere,
- kickshaw,
- lady,
- manna,
- married woman,
- matron,
- mealymouthed,
- morsel,
- nectar,
- old lady,
- old woman,
- pharisaic,
- pietistic,
- pious,
- rib,
- sanctified,
- sanctimonious,
- savory,
- self-righteous,
- sniveling,
- squaw,
- Tartuffian,
- Tartuffish,
- tidbit,
- titbit,
- treat,
- unctuous,
- wedded wife,
- wife,
- woman