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goodie

intj

Etymology

From good + -ie (suffix forming colloquialisms).

  1. derived from *gʰedʰ-✻ — “to unite, be associated, suit, fit”
  2. inherited from *gōdaz✻ — “good”
  3. inherited from *gōd✻
  4. inherited from gōd
  5. inherited from good
  6. suffixed as goodie — “good + ie”

Definitions

  1. Alternative spelling of goody.

  2. A good character in a story, often a hero.

    • All the press, the people and their elected leaders want to know are the goodies and who are the baddies.
    • What really gets to me in these goodies versus baddies movies is just how useless the baddies are.

  3. A member of UK television comedy trio The Goodies.

    • Its cast included eventual co-Goodie Tim Brooke-Taylor and embryo Pythons Graham Chapman and John Cleese.

The neighborhood

Derived

goodie bag, oldie but goodie

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA