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Vinony

goody

noun

  1. Irish dessert-like dish made by boiling bread in milk with sugar and spices; often given to children or older adults and/or eaten on St. John's Eve
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interjection

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈɡʊdi/

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *gadanąvṛd. Proto-Germanic *gōdaz Proto-West Germanic *gōd Old English gōd Middle English good English good Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English goody From good + -y (adjectival suffix).

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

intj

Etymology: From good + -y (suffix forming colloquialisms), influenced by the noun (Etymology 2).

  1. Used to indicate pleasure or delight.

    “Oh goody, ice cream!”

name

Etymology: From Middle English Godeve (female given name), from Old English Godġifu (female given name), from god + ġifu. Doublet of Godiva.

  1. A surname from Old English.

    “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.”

  2. A unisex given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage
  3. An unincorporated community in Pike County, Kentucky, United States.

noun

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

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