What is "middie"

Usage examples of "middie".

Buckman collected Potter and scurried to the astronomy lab, sure that the young middie had created chaos.

Miconou would have announced the middie if he had been where he was supposed to be.

MacKenzie turned to the middie waiting patiently at the foot of the ladder.

Or, as scornful middies were said to remark, the plebes came staggering in.

Most of the middies had taken chairs at the burnished conference table.

The other middies would call her by her last name, as a mark of respect.

Until someone with more seniority showed up, she was in charge of keeping the middies under control and out of my hair.

Only in the privacy of the wardroom could middies release their natural tensions in horseplay.

Two middies waited in my outer office to run any needed errands, and Tolliver was out on the grounds, keeping an eye.

Inside the gates, middies on special duty corraled the cadets-to-be, and every few minutes took a group of them to the Admin Building, where their Naval careers would commence.

When the day came a lieutenant could keep track of what middies were up to.

True, we caned middies as required, but they were considered young gentlemen and ladies, adults by law, but capable of youthful indiscretions that should be chastised.

As a rule, middies were nicer than corporals, perhaps because they had less to prove.

Rumor had it that if the middies were sufficiently irked, even the shorts were dispensed with.

Paulson, have a word with Keene for the middies to pick up after themselves.