Meaning of Goody | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Goodwife, a 17th-century Puritan honorific for an adult woman.
   obsolete
2. A surname from Old English.
   countable, uncountable
3. A small amount of something good to eat.
   informal
4. Any small, usually free, item.
   informal
5. A unisex given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage
   countable, uncountable
6. Pudding made by boiling bread in milk with sugar and spices.
   Ireland
7. An unincorporated community in Pike County, Kentucky, United States.
   countable, uncountable
8. That which is good, the good part of something, which one desires to extract or use up.
   colloquial
9. An American fish, the lafayette or spot.

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Examples

“[…] 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.”

“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, ...”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 ...”

“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.”

“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 […]”

“"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[…]"”

“All the pretty notes are gone out of music, Nothing but bad tunes and sounds, When you take⟳ all the goody out of anything pretty, What you got left is worse 'n coffee grounds.”

““Shot herself in the head with a .38 long-barrel after our marriage deep-sixed, her military career tanked, and she finally figured out that her lover boy had gotten the goody out of her and was moving on.””

“And here he was standing beside a shrimp who moved mountains and dug the goody out from inside them and covered it over, acting like⟳ he'd done the world a favor. “It's helpful for me to do this in stages,” Hollis said.”

“He picked it up with his snake mouth just to get⟳ all the goody out of it. What a beautiful day, he thought as he looked up at the sky. When he had taken in the last⟳ slurp of duck egg, he smiled a little snake smile⟳, ...”

“Rankin sanctioned Ayala $3,000 and kicked him off the lawsuit after the lawyer admitted incorporating the hallucinated AI-generated cases in the brief. Morgan and Goody were sanctioned $1,000 each.”

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