Biddy vs Biggy - What's the difference?
biddy | biggy |
(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)
(colloquial) Something big in size in comparison to similar things.
(colloquial) Something impressive in comparison to similar things.
(colloquial) big deal, usually in used in the negative.
As a proper noun biddy
is a diminutive of the female given name bridget.As a noun biggy is
(colloquial) something big in size in comparison to similar things.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)biggy
English
Alternative forms
* biggie (US)Noun
(biggies)- The wardrobe is the biggy – we'd better move that first.
- Here's the biggy – she's only getting divorced!
- Dude, I forgot to return your book!
- No biggie , I don't need it for another week.
