Goody vs Woody - What's the difference?
goody | woody |
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.
Covered in woods; wooded.
(obsolete) Belonging to the woods; sylvan.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.iii:
Made of wood, or having wood-like properties.
(botany) Non-herbaceous.
(botany) Lignified: "the woody parts of a plant".
A station wagon that has a retro wooden exterior, often associated with Southern California surfing culture.
(vulgar, slang) An erection.
In obsolete terms the difference between goody and woody
is that goody is shortening of goodwife, a 17th century puritan honorific while woody is belonging to the woods; sylvan.As nouns the difference between goody and woody
is that goody is a small amount of something good to eat while woody is a station wagon that has a retro wooden exterior, often associated with Southern California surfing culture.As an interjection goody
is used to indicate pleasure or delight.As an adjective woody is
covered in woods; wooded.As a proper noun Woody is
a male given name, from a nickname for Woodrow.goody
English
Noun
(goodies)woody
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Adjective
(er)- with the wooddie Nymphes when she did play, / Or when the flying Libbard she did chace, / She could them nimbly moue, and after fly apace.
- Subshrubs, shrubs, trees and lianas are all woody plants.