goody

goody
    n 1: something considered choice to eat [syn: {dainty},
         {delicacy}, {goody}, {kickshaw}, {treat}]
    

Goody \Good"y\, n.; pl. {Goodies}.
   1. A bonbon, cake, or the like; -- usually in the pl.
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   2. (Zool.) An American fish; the lafayette or spot.
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Goody \Good"y\, n.; pl. {Goodies}. [Prob. contr. from goodwife.]
   Goodwife; -- a low term of civility or sport.
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Goody \Good"y\, a.
   Weakly or sentimentally good; affectedly good; -- often in
   the reduplicated form {goody-goody}. [Colloq.]
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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}.]
   1. A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a
      blot; a place discolored.
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            Out, damned spot! Out, I say!         --Shak.
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   2. A stain on character or reputation; something that soils
      purity; disgrace; reproach; fault; blemish.
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            Yet Chloe, sure, was formed without a spot. --Pope.
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   3. 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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   4. A small extent of space; a place; any particular place.
      "Fixed to one spot." --Otway.
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            That spot to which I point is Paradise. --Milton.
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            "A jolly place," said he, "in times of old!
            But something ails it now: the spot is cursed."
                                                  --Wordsworth.
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   5. (Zool.) A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called
      from a spot on its head just above its beak.
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   6. (Zool.)
      (a) A sciaenoid 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}.
      (b) 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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   7. pl. Commodities, as merchandise and cotton, sold for
      immediate delivery. [Broker's Cant]
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   {Crescent spot} (Zool.), any butterfly of the family
      {Melitaeidae} 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} (Zool.), the Hudsonian godwit ({Limosa
      haemastica}).

   {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.
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   Syn: Stain; flaw; speck; blot; disgrace; reproach; fault;
        blemish; place; site; locality.
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51 Moby Thesaurus words for "goody":
      Tartuffian, Tartuffish, affected, ambrosia, better half,
      bonne bouche, canting, cate, choice morsel, common-law wife,
      concubine, dainty, delicacy, dessert, false, feme, feme covert,
      goodwife, goody-goody, helpmate, helpmeet, holier-than-thou,
      hypocritical, insincere, kickshaw, lady, manna, married woman,
      matron, mealymouthed, morsel, nectar, old lady, old woman,
      pharisaic, pietistic, pious, rib, sanctified, sanctimonious,
      savory, self-righteous, sniveling, squaw, tidbit, titbit, treat,
      unctuous, wedded wife, wife, woman