What is "middy"

Usage examples of "middy".

In any event, a cadet might be pulled from classes in the middle of a term and sent to the fleet as a middy, or might be held on all or part of another year for further training.

We gathered into the tiny chamber in silence, the few techs pressed against the bulkhead, the middy careful not to brush against me.

What was the point of a receptionist, if any officer on the base could harass me when - Well, Tolliver was my aide, and could bypass the middy in the outer office.

A long time later I roused myself, keyed my caller, spoke to the middy on watch.

Were I a middy I could disobey him with impunity, but as a cadet, every adult in my universe was my superior.

The middy raced down the corridor, prohibitions against running voided by my august authority.

Just short of the hatch I turned the middy by the shoulders, checking all his clamps.

In the mess cabin at lunchtime, I made the coffee while the middy popped the tabs on two Q-rations and set them out to heat.

An inquisitive young middy could augment his education, in its seedier warrens.

If the young middy loping our way saw it, he could execute Eddie on the spot.

Trailing a middy and cadets, I made my way down to the Level 2 lounge.

I hated Law and Regs, but it was part of continuing education, now that I was a middy on Helsinki.

Any midshipman was subject to the discipline of the senior middy, who ran the wardroom.

The middy grabbed the first cadet, thrust the black-haired youth toward the aft lock.

The middy and cadets in Four would be engulfed by fish trapped by the vast Solar gravity, wilting in the unbearable heat.