Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: goody
IPA transcription: [ɡ'ʊdi]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: dainty, delicacy, goody, kickshaw, treat
    Meaning: something considered choice to eat
Usage examples
  • Goody!
  • "Oh, goody!" cried Keith.
  • 'Will you sell that cow, Goody?'
  • 'Why, Goody!' he asked, 'what are you doing?'
  • 'Well', asked the Goody, 'how do things go with him, poor dear soul?'
  • "Goody!" cried Peter and Johnny Chuck together, sitting down side by side on the very edge of the bank.
  • 'Mercy on me', cried out the Goody; 'he never ought to go about such a figure when he left so much behind him.
  • He was rather down in the mouth when he got home to his Goody; but when she asked him what he had done with the horse, he said,
  • For you must know this Goody had been married three times, and as her first and last husbands had been bad, she had made up her mind that the second only was gone to heaven.
  • After a while he passed by a house, out of which came an awful screaming and bellowing; so he turned in and saw a Goody, who was hard at work banging her husband across the head with a beetle, and over his head she had drawn a shirt without any slit for the neck.