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goldie

goldie noun: something which is golden in color.

Noun

goldie (plural goldies)

  1. Something which is golden in color.
    • You'd expect the rainbows and possibly the browns, but not the blues and the goldies, which can look truly spectacular.2008, Where to Fly Fish in Britain and Ireland, page 84
    • The coupons were called greenies, brownies, and goldies. A bicycle could be gotten for 500 goldies. Neither Ray nor I ever acquired a bicycle. But I accumulated a cigar box full of greenies, brownies and a few goldies.2009, Charles R. Twyman, Daddy, There's a Light in the Sky: An Illumination of Life Stories, →ISBN
    1. (UK) The golden eagle.
      • Young "baldies" look just like "goldies" and are often shot by mistake.1958, The A-V., volumes 66-70
      • […] the golden eagle is the champion predator. And the most handsome, according to ornithologists, who affectionately call their subjects "goldies".2004, McSweeney's, number 14, page 124
    2. (UK) The golden plover.
      • “Each time the golden plover moved, its dunlin attendant followed, but when the goldie flew off to land on a wooden post, it triggered a bizarre cameo.2005, Mark Cocker, Richard Mabey, Birds Britannica
      • Both grey and golden had the folk name "whistling plover" in Britain, but you know from the habitat that Burns must have had the goldie in mind in his line, The deep-toned plover gray, wild whistling on the hill2009, Jeremy Mynott, Birdscapes: Birds in Our Imagination and Experience
    3. The goldfinch.
      • I have tried Inga seed for canaries and goldfinches for three or four months, and can speak well of it. My birds, goldies especially, are very fond of it; these will pick it out and leave the canary seed, which they scarcely touch now.1882, William Thomas Greene, editor, Notes on cage birds
      • Mr. Peter Scott, Lauder, related that Goldfinches were common in Lauderdale about forty-five years ago, and that their nests were sometimes found about that time in the grounds of Thirlestane Castle. The rocky deans near the sea-coast at Lamberton are also said to have been frequented by "Goldies"...1889, George Muirhead, The Birds of Berwickshire, page 149
    4. (informal) A goldfish.
      • Outdoor ponds provide the perfect environment for goldies and Koi.1999, Sutterkid, “fish”, in comp.bbs.tbbs (Usenet)
    5. (informal) A Golden Retriever.
      • Incredibly, the reactions of the dogs differed between the instances. […] "It's the pursed lips that do it for me," said another comment: "My goldie used to do the same."2022 July 5, Alice Gibbs, “Golden Retriever's Reaction to Missing Snack Time Delights Internet”, in Newsweek

Proper noun capitalized: Goldie

Goldie

  1. A female given name from English for a girl with golden hair, mostly American usage around 1900. It was further popularized by actress Goldie Hawn
  2. A male or female given name from English for a golden-colored dog or bird
  3. A surname.
  4. A town in the Shire of Macedon Ranges, central Victoria, Australia

goldie meaning in Hindi, Bengali and Odia

goldie in Hindi

गोल्डी

goldie in Bengali

গোল্ডি

goldie in Odia

ଗୋଲ୍ଡୀ

Examples of goldie in a sentence

  • We made brownies, goldies, coffee cakes […]2010, Bernard Glassman, Rick Fields, Instructions to the Cook: A Zen Master's Lessons, →ISBN:
  • Goldies may hunt seabirds but never fish, and they always resort to flying inland for rabbits or hares as preferred prey.2009, John A. Love, A natural history of St. Kilda:
  • Dunlins, 'the plover's page', lay their eggs in wetter flows, usually those having a complex of small pools; we often watched the dunlins following the goldies.2010, Desmond Nethersole-Thompson, Waders: their Breeding, Haunts and Watchers, page 107:
  • The rocky deans near the sea-coast at Lamberton are also said to have been frequented by "Goldies" in former times, and they were likewise found about Fairneyside.1889, George Muirhead, The Birds of Berwickshire, page 149:

Forms of goldie

pluralgoldies

Origin of goldie

From gold + -ie.

Words formed from goldie

Words that rhyme with goldie

Questions about goldie

What does goldie mean?
Goldie means something which is golden in color.
What is goldie in Hindi?
Goldie in Hindi is गोल्डी. See Goldie meaning in Hindi.
How do you use goldie in a sentence?
We made brownies, goldies, coffee cakes […]
What part of speech is goldie?
Goldie can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of goldie?
The plural of goldie is goldies.

Words near goldie in the dictionary

  1. goldheads
  2. goldhoard
  3. goldhoards
  4. Goldi
  5. goldichite
  6. goldie
  7. Goldie's fern
  8. Goldie's wood fern
  9. goldier
  10. goldies
  11. goldiest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: goldie (page history and authors); Goldie (page history and authors); goldie (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); goldie (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); goldie (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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