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Meanings of goody in English

Russian
гуди
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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.

        гуди
        Portuguese
        guloseima
        Catalan
        exquisitat

        An especially delicious comestible.

              guloseima
              Usage of goody in English
              1
              It is quite as goody as an English tale in one volume.
              The Three Brides
              2
              Most of them looked normal, if a bit on the goody-goody side.
              Flawless
              3
              Oh, goody, maybe the bad guys would fight and kill each other.
              The Laughing Corpse
              4
              He was not the goody-goody little scout propagandist that we sometimes read about.
              Pee-wee Harris Adrift
              5
              There is nothing more nonsensical or ridiculous than the goody-goody talk about lynching.
              The Story of the Outlaw: A Study of the Western Desperado
              6
              Even the promo photos that bands would do against mottled backdrops, looking goody-goody.
              The Guardian
              7
              The Checker Shadow Illusion is an oldy, and remains a goody.
              Wired
              8
              It was easy to recognize that Pamela was not only good but goody-goody.
              Masters of the English Novel: A Study of Principles and Personal...
              9
              Mustn't be too goody-goody; that kind of thing is falling out of date.
              New Grub Street
              10
              Tha'rt too good to throw thyself away on the goody-goody Alice Lister sort.
              Tommy
              11
              A lot of goody goodies, too stuck up to bother with country girls.
              Jane Allen, Junior
              12
              If it were big enough, goody, we'd put you into it.
              Jacques Bonneval; Or, The Days of the Dragonnades
              13
              She's a know-it-all goody two-shoes and she doesn't know my life.
              The Guardian
              14
              Who to-day could wade through with children the good-goody books of that generation?
              Forgotten Books of the American Nursery / A History of the Devel...
              15
              She's such a goody-two-shoes, I'll be lucky if there's a guy within miles.
              Funland
              16
              What is the real news about us, for instance, as regards being goody-good?
              Crowds / A Moving-Picture of Democracy
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              Translations for goody
              Russian
              гуди
              Portuguese
              guloseima
              Goody through the time
              Goody across language varieties
              United Kingdom
              Common
              United States of America
              Common