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goody

/ˈɡʊdi/ · noun

Meaning

  1. A good character in a story, often a hero.
  2. A small amount of something good to eat.
  3. Any small, usually free, item.
  4. Pudding made by boiling bread in milk with sugar and spices.
  5. Goodwife, a 17th-century puritan honorific.
  6. An American fish, the lafayette or spot.
  7. Mawkishly good; weakly benevolent or pious.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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