Crossword clues for goody
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spot \Spot\ (sp[o^]t), n. [Cf. Scot. & D. spat, Dan. spette, Sw. spott spittle, slaver; from the root of E. spit. See Spit to eject from the mouth, and cf. Spatter.]
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A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored.
Out, damned spot! Out, I say!
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A stain on character or reputation; something that soils purity; disgrace; reproach; fault; blemish.
Yet Chloe, sure, was formed without a spot.
--Pope. A small part of a different color from the main part, or from the ground upon which it is; as, the spots of a leopard; the spots on a playing card.
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A small extent of space; a place; any particular place. ``Fixed to one spot.''
--Otway.That spot to which I point is Paradise.
--Milton.``A jolly place,'' said he, ``in times of old! But something ails it now: the spot is cursed.''
--Wordsworth. (Zo["o]l.) A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above its beak.
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(Zo["o]l.)
A sci[ae]noid food fish ( Liostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. It has a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides. Called also goody, Lafayette, masooka, and old wife.
The southern redfish, or red horse, which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail. See Redfish.
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pl. Commodities, as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate delivery. [Broker's Cant]
Crescent spot (Zo["o]l.), any butterfly of the family Melit[ae]id[ae] having crescent-shaped white spots along the margins of the red or brown wings.
Spot lens (Microscopy), a condensing lens in which the light is confined to an annular pencil by means of a small, round diaphragm (the spot), and used in dark-field illumination; -- called also spotted lens.
Spot rump (Zo["o]l.), the Hudsonian godwit ( Limosa h[ae]mastica).
Spots on the sun. (Astron.) See Sun spot, ander Sun.
On the spot, or Upon the spot, immediately; before moving; without changing place; as, he made his decision on the spot.
It was determined upon the spot.
--Swift.Syn: Stain; flaw; speck; blot; disgrace; reproach; fault; blemish; place; site; locality.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also goodie, "something tasty," 1745, from good (adj.) + -y (2); adj. use for "sentimentally proper" is 1830 (especially in reduplicated form goody-goody, 1871). As an exclamation of pleasure, by 1796. Goody also used since 1550s as a shortened form of goodwife, a term of civility applied to a married woman in humble life; hence Goody Two-shoes, name of heroine in 1760s children's story who exulted upon acquiring a second shoe.
Wiktionary
interj. Used to indicate pleasure or delight. n. 1 A small amount of something good to eat. 2 Any small, usually free, item. 3 (context Ireland English) pudding made by boiling bread in milk with sugar and spices. 4 (context obsolete English) shortening of goodwife, a 17th century puritan honorific. 5 protagonist or hero 6 An American fish, the lafayette or spot.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Goody, Goodies, or Goody's may refer to:
Goody is a platform action game developed by Gonzalo "Gonzo" Suárez and released in 1987 by the Spanish company Opera Soft.
Goody is a brand of hair-styling products owned by Newell Brands.
Goody Products, Inc., headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, is part of Newell Brands' portfolio of personal care brands, and sells brushes, combs and other hair accessories. It won the American Beauty Association’s gold ABBIE award. Goody is sometimes considered unique among hair products because of its innovative accessory types. One of the collections Goody offers is the Ouchless collection, as it contains no metal connectors to snag hair. Another type is the Stay Put collection, as it contains rubber strands woven into the fabric designed to grip on to hair painlessly. The other collections include the ColourCollection, Elegant edge, Start Style Finish, StylingSolutions, So You, Girls, Styling Therapy, and the Mosaic Collection.
Goody is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:
Surname:
- Gordon Goody (1930–2016), British criminal, involved in the Great Train Robbery
- Jack Goody (1919–2015), British social anthropologist
- Jade Goody (1981–2009), British reality television star
- Joan E. Goody (1935–2009), American architect
- Laila Goody (born 1971), Norwegian actress
- Lancelot John Goody (1908–1992), Roman Catholic bishop then archbishop of Perth
- Nick Goody (born 1991), American baseball player
- Richard Goody (born 1921), emeritus professor of planetary physics at Harvard University
- Roger S Goody (born 1944), English biochemist
Given name:
- Goody Cole or Eunice Cole, the only woman convicted of witchcraft in New Hampshire
- Goody Osborne or Sarah Osborne, woman accused of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials of 1692
- Goody Petronelli, (born 1923) American boxing trainer and co-manager
- Goody Rosen, (1912–1994) Canadian baseball player
Usage examples of "goody".
Oyster dressing and andouille sausage and a few other goodies are stuffed into a chicken that is then stuffed into a duck that is then stuffed into a turkey.
Gives you a chance to make a snap decision as to who are the goodies and who the baddies before taking sides.
The cafe still serves breakfast all day, but the quiche on the menu is as likely to contain porta bello mushrooms as cheddar cheese, the bread is homemade, thick, and filled with goodies like wheat germ and nuts, and the lunch sandwiches are served on baguettes with avocado slices and bean sprouts.
There hobbles Goody Foster, a sour and bitter old beldam, looking as if she went to curse, and not to pray, and whom many of her neighbors suspect of taking an occasional airing on a broomstick.
Sure, I do my little knightlike thing, restoring goodies to the people from whom they were improperly wrested, doing battle with the genuinely evil bastards who prey on the gullible, helpless, and innocent.
Key, Limber Jim, Ned Carigan, Goody, Tom Larkin, and Ned Johnson led the advance with their companies.
Carrigan, Limber Jim, Larkin, Johnson and Goody each smote down a swath of men before them, as they moved resistlessly forward.
Thomas Goodyer his sute and excommunication I stayed, salvo interim jure suo.
There is a rush for plates and plasticware and the children argue and fill their dishes with the sundry goodies.
But there were more goodies in the grab bag of data points provided by pollster Mark Penn.
We will not pretend to say whether Master Prout was more scandalized by the sentiment of dissatisfaction at the colony, or by there proaches lavished on the other goody, who, indeed, to do her justice, was not slow in the use of that formidable weapon wherewith Nature, as if to make amends for physical weakness, has armed the lovelier sex.
To lavish praise and many a raised glass, she prepared goodies ranging from apple pancakes to veal scallopini to buttemut-squash soup to English trifle.
A council was now called, in which, after many debates, Molly still persisting that she would not go to service, it was at length resolved, that Goody Seagrim herself should wait on Miss Western, and endeavour to procure the place for her eldest daughter, who declared great readiness to accept it: but Fortune, who seems to have been an enemy of this little family, afterwards put a stop to her promotion.
Gregory Sternon welcomed him and offered to help carry in the goodies, even though Jantz could smell bacon frying.
They were distracted, it seemed like, and Goody Sump was downright hostile.