What is "middies"

Usage examples of "middies".

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

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.

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.

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.

Several minutes passed hi uneasy silence before the two breathless middies returned.

Shortly, our graduates would change to their midshipman's blues, which they would wear with inordinate pride until they learned that even middies were insignificant creatures in the eyes of working Naval officers.

Once, on Hibernia, a lieutenant had caught the younger middies frolicking in the corridor, and it was I, the senior, who'd paid the price.

Until the night the middies made me stand regs he'd taken no notice of me.

The middies, whom we otherwise used to run errands or help with chores, were helping fill in with Lieutenant Sleak's responsibilities.

Led by Jenks, the middies hauled Reston and Lorca out of bed, ordered them into the corridor.