goodies

Noun (1)

goody (plural goodies)

1. (informal) A small amount of something good to eat.
   • […] when the pleasant time of night is come, and the stewardess is tucking up the ladies, and putting oranges and other goodies under their pillows, and the menfolk assemble in the capstan house to smoke their last cigar.1877, Official Guide and Album of the Cunard Steamship Company, page 95
2. (informal) Any small, usually free, item.
   • The new tax bill has something for everyone, it's true: a cornucopia of savings for the middle class, plenty of goodies for the rich and poor--and a dagger in the back for upper-income wage slaves.1997 August 4, Daniel Kadlec, “The Tax Bill: Money In Motion”, in CNN
3. (Ireland) Pudding made by boiling bread in milk with sugar and spices.
4. (colloquial) 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
5. An American fish, the lafayette or spot.

Noun (2)

goody (plural goodies)

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

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Noun

goodie (plural goodies)

1. (informal) A good character in a story, often a hero.
   • All the press, the people and their elected leaders want to know who are the goodies and who are the baddies.1986 February 13, Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, “A Victory for Democracy”, in Yes, Prime Minister, season 1, episode 6, spoken by Humphrey Appleby (Nigel Hawthorne)

   Antonyms:

   baddie

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