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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
biddy
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
old
▪ I shuddered when I heard the names: old hen, biddy, little old lady in tennis shoes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He supposed he'd have to consult that formidable biddy at the desk.
▪ I shuddered when I heard the names: old hen, biddy, little old lady in tennis shoes.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Biddy

Biddy \Bid"dy\, n. [Etymology uncertain.] A name used in calling a hen or chicken.
--Shak.

Biddy

Biddy \Bid"dy\, n. [A familiar form of Bridget.] An Irish serving woman or girl. [Colloq.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
biddy

"old woman," 1785; meaning "Irish maid-servant" (1861) is American English; both from Biddy, pet form of common Irish proper name Bridget.

Wiktionary
biddy

n. 1 A diminutive of the female given name Bridget. 2 Surname, Scottish origin

WordNet
biddy
  1. n. adult female chicken [syn: hen]

  2. young bird especially of domestic fowl [syn: chick]

Wikipedia
Biddy

Biddy is a given name which may refer to:

Usage examples of "biddy".

Biddy Bencher said that Wing Manion was a sexpot who happened to be a saint and so was complicated back on herself.

Biddy Bencher sparked, for she was the walking tentacle of the world-eater.

Biddy Bencher, did it seem to Foley that things had gone irrevocably wrong?

Small, Doctor Inchball, Hetch Heckler, Biddy Stuckmeyer and Deborah Jib.

Sarah biddy, then may the fiend ride through the both of yez, booted and spurred.

Biddy said nothing to Peter Sherringham, but there was no flatness in a silence which heaved, as it were, with the fairest physiognomic portents.

Two nights ago they planted a resurrectionist in the crowd, bringing some withered old biddy back to life on the sly every time she croaked.

The Paris police co-operated and placed three of its agents as a waiter, a stagehand, and the coatroom biddy.

Could she have remembered some casual comment that Sherman made about some trouble with the electrosleep device he had supplied for Maureen Pike and taught Biddy to operate?

Biddy was almost out of sight when she sprang forward, melting into the darkness.

The asshole in the BMW tried to cut behind me but half the bicyclists, and the biddy in the Benz, had the presence of mind to lurch out and block his path.

Then the moralists grabbed hold of it, and the pulpit-thumpers and local biddies got into the act, and the uproar began.

Kirk saw that he realized, perhaps for the first time, that Aaron Stemple, and Biddy Cloom, and the Bolt brothers and Lottie and Candy and Dr.

And in delighted silence the three little Trysts gazed, till Biddy with the tip of one wet finger touched the bee.

I sat in a Boston rocker near the bed, watching the sleeping woman and thinking that this was probably where Biddy sat and watched her, while she thought about the marriage and thought about her own life.