goodyn.1
/ˈɡʊdi/, U.S. /ˈɡʊdi/ 1.
a. A title of courtesy prefixed to the surname (or occasionally first name) of a woman, usually a married woman of humble social status. Also in extended use. Cf. goodwife n. 2a. Now archaic or in historical contexts.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous forms of address or title > [noun] > title > for a woman > for married woman
damec1300
mistress?c1450
Mrs1485
goodwife1497
goody1559
metreza1604
miss1770
ma1951
the world > people > person > woman > [noun]
wifeeOE
womaneOE
womanOE
queanOE
brideOE
viragoc1000
to wifeOE
burdc1225
ladyc1225
carlinec1375
stotc1386
marec1387
pigsneyc1390
fellowa1393
piecec1400
femalea1425
goddessa1450
fairc1450
womankindc1450
fellowessa1500
femininea1513
tega1529
sister?1532
minikinc1540
wyec1540
placket1547
pig's eye1553
hen?1555
ware1558
pussy?a1560
jade1560
feme1566
gentlewoman1567
mort1567
pinnacea1568
jug1569
rowen1575
tarleather1575
mumps1576
skirt1578
piga1586
rib?1590
puppy1592
smock1592
maness1594
sloy1596
Madonna1602
moll1604
periwinkle1604
Partlet1607
rib of man1609
womanship?1609
modicum1611
Gypsy1612
petticoata1616
runniona1616
birda1627
lucky1629
she-man1640
her1646
lost rib1647
uptails1671
cow1696
tittup1696
cummer17..
wife1702
she-woman1703
person1704
molly1706
fusby1707
goody1708
riding hood1718
birdie1720
faggot1722
piece of goods1727
woman body1771
she-male1776
biddy1785
bitch1785
covess1789
gin1790
pintail1792
buer1807
femme1814
bibi1816
Judy1819
a bit (also bundle) of muslin1823
wifie1823
craft1829
shickster?1834
heifer1835
mot1837
tit1837
Sitt1838
strap1842
hay-bag1851
bint1855
popsy1855
tart1864
woman's woman1868
to deliver the goods1870
chapess1871
Dona1874
girl1878
ladykind1878
mivvy1881
dudess1883
dudette1883
dudine1883
tid1888
totty1890
tootsy1895
floozy1899
dame1902
jane1906
Tom1906
frail1908
bit of stuff1909
quim1909
babe1911
broad1914
muff1914
manhole1916
number1919
rossie1922
bit1923
man's woman1928
scupper1935
split1935
rye mort1936
totsy1938
leg1939
skinny1941
Richard1950
potato1957
scow1960
wimmin1975
womyn1975
womxn1991
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific ranks of common people > [noun] > yeoman > woman
yeomaness1623
goody1708
yeowoman1852
1559 Will of John Eltoftes (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/42B) f. 19 Goody Wilkes [also Goodwyff Wylkes].
1591 E. Spenser Prosopopoia in Complaints 1213 Soft Gooddie Sheepe (then said the Foxe) not soe.
a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Lovers Progres v. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Mmm3v/2 So goodie agent? and you think there is No punishment due for your agentship?
1664 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 15 To gooddy Gale for mending my stockings, 6d.
1708 F. Fox in T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 3 July (1886) II. 117 Goody Vesey my bed-maker.
1798 W. Wordsworth in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 85 (title) Goody Blake, and Harry Gill.
1841 Peter Parley's Ann. 234 Poor old Goody Clackett had little thoughts of ever being smugged..to make a guy on the fifth of November.
1893 A. Bates In Bundle of Time 22 Everybody knows that Goody Stover bewitched him.
1901 W. A. Dutt Highways & Byways in E. Anglia xiii. 355 Old Richard and Goody Kate, dressed in their worn and faded ‘Sunday-best’, at length reach the fair ground.
1987 T. C. Boyle World's End (1988) ii. xxv. 328 The obscenity was too much for the virginal ears of Goody Sturdivant.
b. A woman to whom this title is appropriate; (usually) = goodwife n. 1a. Now rare.
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society > authority > rule or government > rule or government of family or tribe > head of family, tribe, or clan > [noun] > head of household > woman
ladyeOE
house lady?c1225
housewifec1225
goodwifec1275
mistressa1375
hussy1530
madam1647
goodya1680
housemistress1689
the Mrs1821
housemother1822
miesiesa1931
a1680 S. Butler Satires & Misc. Poetry & Prose (1928) App. 431 A Grant for al the Bodys Of Gossips, Gammers, Dames, and Goodies.
a1708 T. Ward England's Reformation (1716) 156 Fame, a busie tatling Guddy.
1736 Disc. Witchcraft 26 We now hear talk of this old Gammar, and that old Goody.
1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 128 Goody begg'd a helping hand To heave her rotten faggot up.
1882 M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal I. iv. 109 Two or three village goodies.
1908 P. Tennant Let. 14 Feb. in A. M. W. Stirling W. De Morgan & his Wife (1922) xii. 296 The old Goody who wobbles down upon you like a hen.
1974 J. Stevens Cox Ilchester Word List 36/1 Goody, an old widow.
c. Used without proper name as a polite form of address to such a woman. Cf. goodwife n. 2b. Now archaic or in historical contexts.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous forms of address or title > [noun] > for woman > married
goody1707
1707 G. Farquhar Beaux Stratagem iv. 40 What's the matter with his Leg, Goody?
1764 K. O'Hara Midas i. ii Pray Goody, please to moderate The rancour of your tongue.
1802 R. Bloomfield Rural Tales 5 Well, Goody, don't stand preaching now.
1896 E. Marshall Master of Musicians xiv. 249 I don't want to go. I like to stay here with you, Goody, and sing in chapel.
1978 C. Churchill Vinegar Tom (1982) xiv. 46 We've others to attend to. Next, please, Goody.
2. Harvard University. A woman who cleans and takes care of students' rooms. Now historical.
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1819 A. Peirce Rebelliad 11 Because ‘Old Goody’ is a name Applied to ev'ry College Dame.
1827 Harvard Reg. (1828) May 86 His friend the ‘Goody’, who had been so attentive to him during his declining hours.
1860 O. W. Holmes Professor at Breakfast-table viii. 236 The late Miss M., a ‘Goody’, so called, or sweeper.
1911 Harvard Monthly Feb. 179 It is the policy of Harvard..to hire as goodies only widows with small children, deserted wives, or women whose husbands are confirmed invalids.
Compounds
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1638 J. Ford Fancies iii. 35 I doe confesse, I thinke the goodee-madame May possibly be compast.
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† goodyn.2
Obsolete. rare.
= goodman n. 4a.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous forms of address or title > [noun] > title > for a man > used with profession
sirec1290
sir1297
mastera1470
goodman1484
goody1582
1582 R. Stanyhurst in tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis 94 Wheare rowed earst mariners, theare now godye carman abydeth.
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goodyn.3
/ˈɡʊdi/, U.S. /ˈɡʊdi/ 1. Chiefly in plural.
a. Something which is particularly tasty to eat; spec. an item of confectionery or sweet food.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet
dredgec1350
confection1393
sugar-meat1586
trinket1587
confectionary1599
soot-meat1614
dulcid1694
sweetie1721
goody-goody1745
bon-bon1796
confiture1802
candy?1809
sweetmeat1812
sucker1823
dulce1834
lokum1845
goody1847
sweet1851
dragée1853
lolly1854
1745 [implied in: J. Swift Direct. to Servants 13 The only Remedy is to bribe them with Goody Goodyes, that they may not tell Tales to Papa and Mamma. (at goody-goody n.2)].
1756 B. Franklin Let. 31 Jan. in Wks. (1887) II. 454 They..present their hearty respects to you for the goodies.
1831 J. M. Peck Guide for Emigrants 62 A whole table..covered with goodies.
1847 E. Synge Let. 28 July (1996) 62 Like Children with their goodys, I keep the best for last.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxxi. 268 ‘Goodies’ we had galore [at Christmas].
1895 Nottinghamshire Guardian 20 Apr. 7/7 If you'll owd thee noise, I'll gi' thee some goodies.
1931 E. Wilson Axel's Castle vii. 253 She is an American woman of the old sort, she who cares for the handmade goodies and who scorns the factory-made foods.
1970 J. L. Briggs Never in Anger iii. 113 She demanded the goody from her mother, who..tried, usually in vain, to substitute a fish eye or a bite of caribou tallow for the coveted raisins.
2001 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 12 Dec. 42/3 Renner..makes traditional German goodies such as christollen—sweet fruit and almond bread with rum and marzipan.
b. gen. Anything that is attractive or desirable to have.
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1916 United Mine Workers' Jrnl. 15 June 30/1 All he asks is a square deal and an occasional raise in wages in proportion to the rise in price of the ‘goodies’.
1952 Sun (Baltimore) 22 Jan. 10/2 As you know only too well, fashion markets are literally teeming right now with all manner of goodies for spring.
1988 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 15 Oct. 8/1 Among the goodies the Premier..promised Queenslanders..was a new economic direction that guaranteed them employment.
2009 New Yorker 22 June 14/2 Somebody was bound to reap jolly Schadenfreude from the recessionary devaluing of super-pricey goodies like Jeff Koons's iconic stainless-steel ‘Rabbit’.
c. An attractive feature or item offered as an addition or accessory to a product, originally a motor vehicle.
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1954 Amer. Speech May 97 Goodies, outside accessories on an engine to make it look good or ‘souped up’.
1962 Car Life Dec. 2 Your staff of testers cannot fairly and equitably appraise the Chevrolet Impala sedan, with all nine yards of goodies, against the Plymouth Savoy.
1989 Sky & Telescope Dec. 617/1 For less than $100 you get a 450-power, 60-mm..equatorial refractor with setting circles, and all kinds of goodies.
2007 Independent 21 Mar. (Property section) 5/1 Today, you should expect nothing less than a podcast or video, backed up by a stream of other goodies.
d. slang (chiefly U.S.). Usually with reference to a woman: any part of the body considered sexually desirable, esp. the genitals or breasts.
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1957 J. McPartland No Down Payment xxvi. 268 A man could stand hours of that part, talking some jive to the tomato, kidding her, looking at all her goodies, still under wraps and covered up with dresses and slips and bras and panties.
1958 T. Southern & M. Hoffenberg Candy xv. 180 Snapping his wig like that on account of my tight slick goodie.
1963 F. Mullally Split Scene i. 18 The American nymphet had already learned to deploy her ‘goodies’ to serve her nascent gorgonian ends.
1974 V. C. Strasburger Rounding Third i. 22 I always have this picture of Smokey Robinson singing while some girl is grabbing his goodies.
1985 Texas Monthly Sept. 212/2 A country torch singer..who shakes her goodies in a tomato-red dress.
2007 E. S. Gray It's like Candy 55 He gazed at the pussy for a short moment, admiring how clean and well shaved Starr kept her goodies.
2. English regional (chiefly northern). In singular. Confectionery, sweets.In less widespread regional use than the plural form (cf. quot. 1895 at sense 1a).
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun]
sweetmeat?a1500
candy1587
spice1674
lollipop1784
sweet-stuff1835
goody1853
sucks1858
pogey bait1918
1853 E. C. Gaskell Cranford v. 75 The ‘mother dear’ probably answered her boy in the form of cakes and ‘goody’, for there were none of her letters among this set.
1866 T. R. Higham Dialogue between Tom Thomas & Bill Bilkey 16 Wust a han a bit of guddey, Bill?
1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness Goody, sweets. ‘Fetch us a hawporth o' goody.’
1963 H. Orton & W. J. Halliday Surv. Eng. Dial. I. ii. 549 [Yorks.] Q. If you wished to please a child, you might say: Here's 3d., go and buy yourself..Some goody.
Compounds
goody-bag n. originally U.S. a bag of gifts (originally sweets), esp. one of a number presented to the guests at a party or event; cf. party bag n. at party n. Compounds 5.
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1929 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 4 Dec. 16 d/2 The poor children of the community receive toys and a Yuletide goody bag.
1954 Chicago Star 16 Apr. 44/1 (advt.) 500 1c Goodie Bags to First 500 Kiddies!
1990 Hair Oct. 18 (advt.) Each reader will take away a goodie bag containing Schwarzkopf hair products, Bourjois cosmetics [etc.].
2004 Independent on Sunday 25 Apr. (Review Suppl.) 37/4 They're surely the world's most comfortable flip-flop and now so hip, gold pairs were given away in this year's Oscar-night goodie-bag.
goody box n.
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1881 C. F. Yonge & C. M. Yonge in Monthly Packet Dec. 265 People thought they had come fresh out of Lady Bountiful's goody-box.
1968 S. E. Whitfield in S. E. Whitfield & G. Roddenberry Making of ‘Star Trek’ iv. vii. 365 He would put the goodie box right next to the particular set the crew was working that day. The box contained an assortment of chocolates..and various paper-wrapped candies.
1986 A. Stoddard Living Beautiful Life (1988) vi. 159 Whenever I find little things I really like on my travels—baskets, fabric-covered boxes, potpourri, decorative soaps, notepaper, handkerchiefs, picture frames—I buy several and store them in my goodie boxes.
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goodyn.5
/ˈɡʊdi/, U.S. /ˈɡʊdi/ U.S. regional (eastern).
The spot croaker, Leiostomus xanthurus, a small, edible sciaenid fish found off the eastern coasts of North America and the Caribbean. Also more fully Cape May goody.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Sciaenidae (drums) > [noun] > member of leiostomus xanthurus (spot)
goody1855
spot1864
roach1873
spotfish1875
1855 9th Ann. Rep. Smithsonian Inst. 329 The ‘Cape May Goody’ of the Jersey coast, so called from its great abundance at Cape Island, is very rarely taken in winter.
1885 Standard Nat. Hist. III. 215 A much smaller species..otherwise known as ‘Lafayette’ or ‘Cape May goodie’.
1902 D. S. Jordan & B. W. Evermann Amer. Food & Game Fishes 463 The single species, Leiostomus xanthurus, is a popular and well-known fish..under the vernacular names spot, goody, [etc.].
1983 V. Tanzer Call it Delmarvalous iii. viii. 85 During the last two weeks in August, a small fish appears in the Delaware Bay..called a ‘spot’ or a ‘Cape May Goody’.
2005 A. Green Field Guide Seafood 39 Croakers and Drums... Spot: Goody; Lafayette or Norfolk spot.
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goodyadj.n.4adv.
/ˈɡʊdi/, U.S. /ˈɡʊdi/ A. adj.† 1. = goodly adj. (chiefly sense 4a). Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > considerable in amount or degree
goodeOE
fairOE
goodlyc1275
largea1375
no littlea1413
substantial1413
unleast?1440
prettya1475
reasonablea1500
substantious1545
substantive1575
sensible1581
pretty and ——1596
goody1597
greatish1611
considerable1651
sonsy1721
respectable1736
smart1750
quite a little ——1763
gey1796
smartish1799
canny1805
serious1810
right smart1825
dunnamuch1831
snug1833
tidy1839
bonnyish1855
largish1872
a nice little ——1891
significant1898
healthy1901
beaucoup1917
1597 H. Broughton Epist. Learned Nobility 23 In golde of all Ebrewe termes Cethem, Paz & other terms ful goody of gold.
1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster North-ward Hoe v. sig. H How say you by that goody Sentence, looke you sir.
1670 G. Hughes Aphorisms 228 On the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it, and it shall be a goody cedar, an illustrious, stately one.
1813 T. Moore Mem. (1853) I. 344 The offer of such a quiet, goody retreat as Ready's is every way convenient.
2. Affectedly or self-consciously careful to conform to conventional standards of moral conduct or good manners; characterized by or expressing weak and sentimental morality. Frequently in explicit contrast with good. Cf. goody-goody adj.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > sanctimoniousness > [adjective]
pope-holya1387
Pharisaical1527
as holy (also as sick, as strong) as a horse1530
hypocritish1531
hypocritic1540
hypocritely1541
hypocritical1553
horse-holy?1589
sanctified1604
Pharisee-like1611
sanctimoniousa1616
Pharisaica1618
lip-holy1624
Bible-bearing1625
canting1663
unctuous1742
pietistical1753
pietical1782
goody-goody1785
goody1808
Sunday school1817
Pecksniffian1844
goodyish1848
goody-good1851
devil-dodging?1861
pietic1865
mawwormish1883
pietistic1884
mawwormy1885
pi1891
pietose1893
holier-than-thou1912
antimacassar1913
holy1958
1808 J. N. Barker Indian Princess Pref. O ye sage censors! ye goody gossips at poetic births!
1830 J. Wilson in Blackwood's Mag. Apr. 688 Characters well drawn—incidents well managed—..moral good, but not goody.
a1834 S. T. Coleridge Specimens of Table Talk (1835) II. 245 There can be no great poet who is not a good man, though not, perhaps, a goody man.
1837 J. Sterling Let. 16 Nov. in T. Carlyle Life J. Sterling (1851) ii. v. 193 All this may be mere goody weakness and twaddle, on my part.
1890 Sat. Rev. 1 Feb. 150/2 A lackadaisically sentimental and commonplace ballad..which is sure to be popular with a certain class of ‘goody people’.
1905 Advance 14 Dec. 726/3 Goody talk and pretty sentiment, without justice and judgment, will never bring the Kingdom of Christ.
2009 J. Burroway Bridge of Sand xi. 124 Don't be such a goody girl.
B. n.4
1. A person who always behaves well or who wishes good always to prevail, esp. one who is affectedly or self-consciously careful to conform to conventional standards of moral conduct or good manners; a goody-goody.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > sanctimoniousness > [noun] > person
Pharisee1539
card gospeller1550
lip-gospeller?1556
saint1563
table-gospeller1570
separatist1620
Christera1650
canter1652
high-liver1715
cant1725
pietist1767
devil dodger1791
goody1816
creeping Jesusc1818
Mawworm1825
goody-two-shoes1843
Pecksniff1844
goody-goody1872
goody-good1879
lip-Christian1882
plaster saint1890
holy Willie1916
1816 Courier 25 July That precious set of Politicians, who, either as boisterous railers or maudlin goodies,..were incessantly declaiming [etc.].
1873 C. M. Yonge Pillars of House IV. xxxix. 147 She is the most thorough Goody I ever came across.
1878 J. Cook Lect. Conscience (1879) ii. 25 No doubt, if a Cæsar or a Napoleon comes before some man of weak will, the latter, although he be a good man,—and especially if he be a ‘goody’, a very different thing—will quail.
1901 Contemp. Rev. Mar. 436 This goody ought to moderate the rancour of his tongue.
1984 A. Owens Gentlemen of West ix. 87 The apprentice sickened me. He had seen nothing, done nothing and was always a goody.
2. colloquial (originally U.S.). A good or virtuous person; esp. one who is on the side of good against evil in a story, film, etc., and whom the reader or audience is intended to support or identify with; (in extended use) a person who is on one's side. Frequently in plural. Opposed to baddie n. Cf. good guy n. at good adj., n., adv., and int. Compounds 1c.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > [noun] > good person
bricka1845
my tulip1847
honey1848
a (bad, good, etc.) sortc1869
rattler1886
toff1898
one of the best1917
goody1934
society > morality > rightness or justice > [noun] > person
right-thinker1724
right-thinking1855
goody1934
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > part or character > [noun] > types of part or character
underpart1679
persona muta1714
travesty1732
soubrette1753
old man1762
small part?1774
breeches-part1779
character part1811
fat1812
chambermaida1828
fool?1835
raisonneur1845
ingénue1848
villain of the piece1854
stock character1864
feeder1866
satirette1870
character role1871
travesty1887
thinking part1890
walk-on1902
cardboard cutout1906
bit1926
good guy1928
feed1929
bad guy1932
goody1934
walkthrough1935
narrator1941
cameo1950
black hat1959
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > actors or characters > [noun] > other actors
lens louse1928
stand-in1929
baddie1934
goody1934
narrator1941
voice actor1958
playback singer1963
voice-over1966
voice actress1974
body double1981
1934 Daily News Standard (Uniontown, Pa.) 31 Aug. 4/2 Both the goodies and the baddies have influence now, whereas in previous administrations just one of those groups had everything its own way.
1939 Los Angeles Times 3 Sept. (Sunday Mag.) 10/2 Characters are either ‘Goodies’ or ‘Baddies’, in the vernacular, consistently virtuous or villainous.
1951 J. Frame Lagoon 79 We got shouted to the pictures..where we cheered the goodies and booed the baddies.
1967 B. Took & M. Feldman in B. Took & M. Coward Best of ‘Round The Horne’ (2000) 3rd Ser. Programme 10. 144/2 When I was young our values were clear cut—we always knew who to hiss, the goodies wore white and the baddies wore black—it's a bit confusing nowadays.
1984 J. Barnes Flaubert's Parrot x. 130 Was he on our side? Was he a goodie?
1995 New Republic 13 Feb. 33/2 The goodies outside who care about the poor and the environment and the baddies inside who care about market efficiency.
2011 Daily Tel. 19 Aug. 26/5 There was a time when US car companies paid movie producers to put baddies in the opposition's cars, while goodies drove their marque.
C. adv.
In accordance with conventional standards of moral conduct or good manners; esp. in an affectedly or self-consciously virtuous manner. Chiefly in to talk goody. Now rare.
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1868 H. Kingsley Silcote of Silcotes II. v. 74 She did not talk ‘goody’ to them.
1879 E. Marshall Royal Law 25 I never have any faith in those who cant and talk goody; they are generally the biggest rascals.
1909 W. F. De morgan It can never happen Again i. 8 Give them air and light and sanitation and things, and then talk goody to them if you like.
1940 N.Y. Times 5 Mar. vi. 9/4 She had been strictly brought up and had brought her boys up ‘goody’.
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goodyint.
/ˈɡʊdi/, U.S. /ˈɡʊdi/ Expressing childish delight, excitement, or (occasionally) surprise. Frequently reduplicated and in elaborated forms (see Phrases 2).
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or exclamation > [interjection] > other specific cries or exclamations
oeOE
heya1225
ouc1300
we13..
hac1320
how1377
how now?c1380
vaha1382
ha a!c1386
ha ha!c1386
hoa1400
ohoa1400
yowc1440
yoa1475
heh1475
hey ho?c1475
huffc1485
wemaya1500
whewa1500
wow1513
huffa?1520
gup?1528
ist1540
whow1542
hougha1556
whoo1570
good-now1578
ooh1602
phew1604
highday1606
huh1608
whoo-whoop1611
sessaa1616
tara1672
hegh1723
hip1735
waugha1766
whoofa1766
jee1786
goody1796
yaw1797
hech1808
whoo-ee1811
whizz1812
yah1812
soh1815
sirs1816
how1817
quep1822
soho1825
ow1834
ouch1838
pfui1838
suz1844
shoo1845
yoop1847
upsadaisy1862
houp-la1870
hooch1871
nu1892
ouff1898
upsy1903
oo-er1909
ooh-wee1910
eina1913
oops1921
whoopsie1923
whoops-a-daisy1925
hot-cha-cha1929
upsadaisy1929
walla1929
hotcha1931
hi-de-ho1936
po po po1936
ho-de-ho1941
oh, oh1944
oopsy1956
chingas1984
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1796 ‘A. Barton’ Disappointment (ed. 2) ii. iii. 48 Oh! goodee, goodee, oh! we shall see presently.
1853 B. F. Taylor January & June (1871) 125 Port's tongue [being] busy the while with..‘may I go?’ and ‘goody! goody!’ to a provisional affirmative.
1890 Harper's Mag. Mar. 608/1 You're coming home with us?.. Yes? Oh, goody! You'll come?
1898 P. L. Ford Hon. Peter Stirling 244 ‘That makes five,’ said Peter. ‘Oh, goody!’ said Leonore, ‘I mean,’ she said, correcting herself, ‘that that is very kind of you.’
1949 Landfall 3 i. 57 His mother was out, goody.
1953 H. Miller Plexus II. x. 86 I see Halvah and Baklava too. Goody goody!
1999 C. Dawson Mother-in-law Diaries 112 ‘Oh, goody!’, cried Filalia, clapping her hands.
Phrases
P1. my goody [euphemistic alteration of my God at god n. and int. Phrases 1e(a)] : euphemistically expressing surprise, disbelief, etc. Cf. my God at god n. and int. Phrases 1e(a), goodness n. Phrases 1.
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1873 Golden Hours Nov. 491/1 ‘O, my goody!’ said he.
1886 H. Baumann Londinismen 67/1 My goody, goodness gracious!
1898 M. A. Ward Helbeck of Bannisdale (2006) 52 Oh! my goody—isn't that rousing?
1918 G. M. Reynolds Lonely Stronghold i. 2 ‘Oh, my goody,’ said she.
P2. Originally U.S. goody gumdrops (also goody goody gumdrops): expressing childish delight or excitement.Used in representing children's speech or in self-conscious, typically humorous or ironic, allusion to it.
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1930 Zanesville (Ohio) Signal 29 Oct. 8 (headline) Goody! Goody! Gumdrops!
1951 Waterloo (Iowa) Daily Courier 21 May 2/3 Just like the skunk on the TV show. Oh goody, gumdrops!
1960 J. Grant Come again, Nurse x. 54 ‘Just in time,’ said the Registrar jovially. ‘Goody goody gum drops.’ He walked over to the coffee pot and helped himself.
1967 N. Freeling Strike Out 16 Buttered toast, and cherry cake, as well as Marmite. Goody, goody gumdrops.
1995 S. J. Hamilton My Name's Not Susie i. 15 Goody, goody gumdrops, one more day till Christmas; goody, goody gumdrops, I'll see my mommy for Christmas.
2004 K. A. Corlett Ever your Servant vii. 107 ‘Goody gumdrops’, she deadpanned, pivoting away before she lost control of her voice.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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