Usually means: Small, delightful item or treat.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word goody:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. goody: Merriam-Webster
  2. goody, goody: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. goody, goody: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. goody: Collins English Dictionary
  5. goody: Vocabulary.com
  6. Goody: Wordnik
  7. goody: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Goody, goody: Wiktionary
  9. goody: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. goody: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. goody: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Goody, goody: Dictionary.com
  13. goody: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. goody: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Goody (brand), Goody (dessert), Goody (video game), Goody: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Goody: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. goody: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. goody: Rhymezone
  19. Goody: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. goody: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Goody: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. goody: FreeDictionary.org
  23. goody: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. goody: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. goody: Wordnik
  26. goody: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Goody: Artist Search

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. GOODY, GOODY, GOODY: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  2. goody: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Goody: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See goodies as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (informal) A small amount of something good to eat.
noun:  (informal) Any small, usually free, item.
noun:  (Ireland) Pudding made by boiling bread in milk with sugar and spices.
noun:  (colloquial, chiefly in phrases with a verb + "the goody out of") That which is good, the good part of something, which one desires to extract or use up.
noun:  An American fish, the lafayette or spot.
adjective:  Synonym of goody-goody (“mawkishly good; weakly benevolent or pious”)
noun:  (obsolete) Goodwife, a 17th-century Puritan honorific for an adult woman.
noun:  A surname from Old English.
noun:  A unisex given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage
noun:  (informal) Alternative form of goodie (“hero, good character in a story”) [(informal) A good character in a story, often a hero.]

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