Goods vs Goody - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between goods and goody

is that goods is that which is produced, then traded, bought or sold, then finally consumed while goody is a small amount of something good to eat.

As an interjection goody is

used to indicate pleasure or delight.

goods

English

Noun

(head)

(business, economics, plurale tantum) That which is produced, then traded, bought or sold, then finally consumed.

(informal, often preceded by the) Something authentic, important, or revealing.

(transport) freight (not passengers)

English plurals

Usage notes

* Adjectives often applied to produced, traded, or consumed "goods": returned, used, damaged, stolen, lost, dangerous, non-traded, intermediate, promotional, industrial, agricultural, imported, cheap, expensive, luxury, inferior, counterfeit, raw, processed, scarce, durable, perishable, baked, public, collective, digital, virtual, necessary, essential.

Synonyms

* (that which is consumed) wares * evidence, facts

Antonyms

* (that which is consumed) capital, services

Derived terms

* baked goods * bill of goods * brown goods * capital goods * come up with the goods * consumer goods * cost of goods sold * damaged goods * dangerous goods * deliver the goods * digital goods * dry goods * fancy goods * finished goods * get the goods on, have the goods on * goods and sales tax * goods train, goods van, goods wagon * grave goods * greige goods * heavy goods vehicle * leathergoods * nongoods * red goods * sell someone a bill of goods * smallgoods * softgoods * white goods

External links

* (wikipedia "goods")

Anagrams

goody

English

Interjection

(wikipedia goody) goody !

Used to indicate pleasure or delight.

Noun

(goodies)

A small amount of something good to eat.

Any small, usually free, item.

(Ireland) pudding made by boiling bread in milk with sugar and spices.

(obsolete) shortening of goodwife, a 17th century puritan honorific.

protagonist or hero

An American fish, the lafayette or spot.