Biddy vs Middy - What's the difference?
biddy | middy |
(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)
(nautical, slang) a midshipman
(AU) A measure of 285 ml (10 fl oz) of beer; a pot.
As nouns the difference between biddy and middy
is that biddy is a woman, especially an old woman; especially one regarded as fussy or mean or a gossipy busybody while middy is a midshipman.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."
