goody

Etymology 1

good + -y

intj

1. (informal) Used to indicate pleasure or delight.

noun

1. (informal) A small amount of something good to eat.
   She slid the goody out into her hand and gave a little aww. He'd baked her a dark chocolate cookie with a white heart swirled on the top. “You are so sweet. I'm going to save this for later, when I need a little pick-me-up, ... 2016, Gail Chianese, Fiancé for Keeps, Lyrical Press
2. (informal) Any small, usually free, item.
3. (Ireland) Pudding made by boiling bread in milk with sugar and spices.
4. (informal) Alternative form of goodie (“hero, good character in a story”)
   Eventually he would throw the goody out of the ring, at which point the goody lost his rag, climbed back into the ring and gave the baddy a good pasting. He was declared the winner, and everybody was satisfied. 2011, Eddie Bennett, Weight for it: A life of lifting, AuthorHouse, page 91
5. (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.
   Use flour to thicken the gravy and get all the goody out of the pan ... make the gravy right in it. I know of nothing that beats mashed potatoes with this. 1962, Phil DeGraff, Birches, Beaches & Belches
   But you sure took the goody out of the converter. That is, physically you didn't do any damage, the converter just doesn't work chemically any more. If you have to be "emissions-legal" some day, you'll have to replace the converter. 1979, Popular Science, page 26
   When I was a kid I would never throw away my gum until I'd “chewed all the goody out of it." And so it is with Eden joys. To get the most out of these wonder-filled times — both large and small pleasures — we need to practice ... 1998, Becky Freeman, A View from the Porch Swing: Musings on a Complicated Search for the Simple Life, B & H Publishing Group
   You have to put the time in to get the goody out. That's what he said. He talkin bout God and shit and then he come talkin bout the goody! He so country sometime! [A beat.] I been thinkin bout if I wanna keep smokin that Pearl Cleage. 2001, Glenn Young, The Best American Short Plays 1999-2000, Hal Leonard Corporation, page 48
   She loved to eat raw cake dough and she enjoyed licking icing off the utensils and getting all the goody from the inside of the icing cans. The yellow cakes came from box mixes - she didn't start from scratch - but […] 2003, Jerry Pilcher, Gloria's Song: A Celebration of Living in the Face of Cancer, AuthorHouse, page 29
   "Have you ever watched sheep grazing in a field?" Jill asked. "They pull off a small clump of grass with their teeth, and then they begin to slowly chew. Then they chew, and chew, and chew, and chew. They chew all the goody out[…]" 2003, Brenda Waggoner, Fairy Tale Faith: Living in the Meantime When You Expected Happily Ever After, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., page 149
   All the pretty notes are gone out of music, Nothing but bad tunes and sounds, When you take all the goody out of anything pretty, What you got left is worse 'n coffee grounds. 2012, Bobby Nimocks, “BALLAD OF THE CHRISTMAS BLUES”, in Filets: A Literary Treat for Gourmet Appetites, Author House, page 56
   Shot herself in the head with a .38 long-barrel after our marriage deep-sixed, her military career tanked, and she finally figured out that her lover boy had gotten the goody out of her and was moving on. 2017, Robert Greer, Astride a Pink Horse: A Thriller, Open Road Media
   And here he was standing beside a shrimp who moved mountains and dug the goody out from inside them and covered it over, acting like he'd done the world a favor. “It's helpful for me to do this in stages,” Hollis said. 2018, Chris Fabry, Under a Cloudless Sky, NavPress
   He picked it up with his snake mouth just to get all the goody out of it. What a beautiful day, he thought as he looked up at the sky. When he had taken in the last slurp of duck egg, he smiled a little snake smile, ... 2020, Maxwell Morgan, Tales of the Mockingbird, Page Publishing, Inc
6. An American fish, the lafayette or spot.

adj

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

Etymology 2

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

noun

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