Definition of "goody" in English

interjection

1. (informal) Used to indicate pleasure or delight.

   • Oh goody, ice cream!

noun

1. (informal) A small amount of something good to eat.

2. (informal) Any small, usually free, item.

3. (Ireland) Pudding made by boiling bread in milk with sugar and spices.

4. (informal) Alternative form of goodie (“hero, good character in a story”).

5. (colloquial, chiefly in phrases with a verb + "the goody out of") 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.

adjective

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

noun

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