Meaning

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

    Leckerbissen, etwas Leckeres, Süßigkeit

    ла́комствоlákomstvo, вкусня́шкаvkusnjáška

    something considered choice to eat

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

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

  4. (colloquial)That which is good, the good part of something, which one desires to extract or use up.

  5. An American fish, the lafayette or spot.

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

Examples

10 sentences
  1. The next song is an oldie but a goodie.

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  2. Tom is a goody-two-shoes.

    Том — пай-хлопчик.

    deTom ist ein Tugendbold.

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  3. Tom is a goody two shoes.

    Том — пай-хлопчик.

    deTom ist ein Tugendbold.

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  4. Tom is such a goody-goody.

    Том такий цяця-хлопчик.

    ruТом такой пай-мальчик.

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  5. You're a goody-goody.

    Ти така святунька.

    deDu bist ein Musterknabe.

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Translations

3 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
A small amount of something good to eat:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
A small amount of something good to eat:

Origin

Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij- Clipping of goodwife + -y (diminutive suffix). Compare hussy f

Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij-

Clipping of goodwife + -y (diminutive suffix). Compare hussy from housewife, the obsolete pronunciation /ˈmɪdɪf/ of midwife, and less directly, missus from mistress.

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Forms

plural: goodies
Singulargoody
Pluralgoodies

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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