Biddy vs Beddy - What's the difference?
biddy | beddy |
(pejorative) A woman, especially an old woman; especially one regarded as fussy or mean or a gossipy busybody.
(uncommon) An attractive little girl.
(senseid)(archaic, colloquial) An Irish maidservant.
(by extension, derogatory) Any Irishwoman
A name used in calling a hen or chicken, often as "biddy-biddy-biddy".
* 1915 Burgess, Thornton W. , The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel , Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, Ch. XI:
(label)
(hypocoristic ) bed
* 1989 , Martin Barker, Comics: ideology, power, and the critics - Page 87
As nouns the difference between biddy and beddy
is that biddy is a woman, especially an old woman; especially one regarded as fussy or mean or a gossipy busybody while beddy is (hypocoristic) bed.As a proper noun Biddy
is a diminutive of the female given name Bridget.biddy
English
Etymology 1
Derived from (m), diminutive form of (m). It came to be generic name for an Irish maid (US), and then an old woman.Noun
(biddies)- (Shakespeare)
- "Well, we'll see about it by and by," said Farmer Brown's boy. "There's the breakfast bell, and I haven't fed the biddies yet."
Etymology 2
Noun
(biddies)beddy
English
Noun
(beddies)- On to the back page, and Walter is walking the fields after school, clutching his teddy: 'I've made up another poem. Perhaps I'll be poet laureate one day!': Oh, sweet and cuddly darling Teddy, You keep me cosy in my beddy .