goody

名词 n. 形容词 adj. 感叹词 intj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small amount of something good to eat. informal
    — […] 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.
  2. Goodwife, a 17th-century Puritan honorific for an adult woman. obsolete
  3. Any small, usually free, item. informal
    — 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.
  4. Pudding made by boiling bread in milk with sugar and spices. Ireland
  5. Alternative form of goodie (“hero, good character in a story”). alt-of,alternative,informal
    — 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.
  6. That which is good, the good part of something, which one desires to extract or use up. colloquial
    — 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.
  7. An American fish, the lafayette or spot.
形容词 adj.
  1. Synonym of goody-goody (“mawkishly good; weakly benevolent or pious”).
感叹词 intj.
  1. Used to indicate pleasure or delight. informal
    — Oh goody, ice cream!

词形变化

goodie alternative goodies plural goodie alternative goodier comparative goodiest superlative goodies plural

词汇关系

衍生词
goody bag

词源

词源 1
From good + -y (suffix forming colloquialisms), influenced by the noun (Etymology 2).
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *gadanąvṛd.
Proto-Germanic *gōdaz
Proto-West Germanic *gōd
Old English gōd
Middle English good
English good
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English goody
From good + -y (nominal suffix).
词源 3
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *gadanąvṛd.
Proto-Germanic *gōdaz
Proto-West Germanic *gōd
Old English gōd
Middle English good
English good
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English goody
From good + -y (adjectival suffix).
词源 4
Clipping of goodwife + -y (diminutive suffix). Compare hussy from housewife, the obsolete pronunciation /ˈmɪdɪf/ of midwife, and less directly, missus from mistress.
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