goodie

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of goody.

plural goodies

1. informalA good character in a story, often a hero.

   What really gets to me in these goodies versus baddies movies is just how useless the baddies are.

   1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 127

   1 more example

   All the press, the people and their elected leaders want to know who are the goodies and who are the baddies.

   1986 February 13, Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, “A Victory for Democracy”, in Yes, Prime Minister, season 1, episode 6, spoken by Humphrey Appleby (Nigel Hawthorne)

   Antonyms: baddie

2. alternativeAlternative spelling of goody.

plural Goodies

1. 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.

   1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 67