Fussy vs Biddy - What's the difference?
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Anxious or particular about petty details.
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*:It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy .
Having a tendency to fuss, cry, or be ill-tempered (especially of babies).
(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:
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As an adjective fussy
is anxious or particular about petty details.As a noun biddy is
(pejorative) a woman, especially an old woman; especially one regarded as fussy or mean or a gossipy busybody or biddy can be (label).fussy
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* pedantic * pickybiddy
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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."