What is "millie"

n. 1 ''(Northern Ireland, 19th Century, pejorative or affectionate)'' a mill-worker, usually a young, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/working%20class woman working in the factories of Ireland's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish%20linen industry.BBC Newsline broadcast 27th of May 2010 2 ''(modern, pejorative or affectionate)'' A working class, harsh-spoken woman, often unemployed (also ''mil-bag'').

Millie is a feminine given name or diminutive form of various other given names, such as Emily, Millicent, Mildred, Camilla or sometimes Amelia. It may refer to:

People:

• Amelia Best (1900-1979), one of the first two women elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly
• Millie Bright (born 1993), English footballer in the FA Women's Super League
• Milagros Millie Corretjer (born 1974), Puerto Rican singer and actress, wife of retired boxer Oscar De La Hoya
• Millie Criswell (born 1948), American writer of romance novels
• Mildred Millie Deegan (1919-2002), American baseball player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
• Millie DeLeon (c. 1873–1922), stage name of American burlesque dancer Millie Lawrence
• Millie Hamner, American politician, member of the Colorado State House of Representatives beginning 2010
• Millie Hughes-Fulford (born 1945), American medical investigator, molecular biologist and former NASA astronaut
• Millie Innes (born 2000), Scottish actress
• Mildred Millie Jackson (born 1944), American singer-songwriter
• Mildred Millie Jeffrey (1910-2004), American activist and pioneer for workers', civil and women's rights, and union organizer
• Millie Kirkham (1923-2014), American singer born Millicent Eakes
• Millie Knight (born 1999), British Paralympic skier
• Millie McKoy (1851-1912), African-American conjoined twin
• Millie Peacock, Lady Peacock (1870-1948), first woman elected to the Parliament of Victoria, Australia
• Millie Perkins (born 1938), American actress
• Mildred Lewis Rutherford (1851–1928), American educator and author nicknamed "Miss Millie"
• Millie Scott (fl. 1980s), American R&B singer
• Millie Spalding (born 1998), British acrobatic gymnast
• Millicent Millie Small (born 1946), Jamaican singer-songwriter
• Millie Tomlinson (born 1992), English professional squash player

Fictional characters:

• the title character of Meet Millie, a radio and television series of the 1950s
• Millie the Model, a comic book series and its titles character
• Millie (Suikoden), a character in the video game Suikoden 2
• Millie the Echidna, one of the three official mascots of the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney
• Millie Burtonburger from Kid vs. Kat
• Millie Dillmount, title character of the 1967 film Thoroughly Modern Millie and the 2002 Broadway musical
• Millicent Huxtable, in the television series One Tree Hill
• Millie Mouse, a niece of the Disney cartoon character Minnie Mouse
• Millicent Mudd, a character in the webcomic Ozy and Millie
• Millicent Millie Tant, in the British comic Viz

Dogs:

• Millie (dog), owned by Barbara and George H. W. Bush

Mildred "Millie" Kerr Bush (January 12, 1985 – May 19, 1997) was the pet English Springer Spaniel of Barbara and George H. W. Bush. She was named for Mildred Caldwell Kerr, a long-time friend of the Bushes, which is also the name of Kerr's granddaughter, Millie Kerr.

Millie was referred to as "the most famous dog in White House history." Bush mentioned her in a speech during his 1992 bid for re-election, saying “My dog Millie knows more about foreign affairs than these two bozos” in reference to opposition candidates Bill Clinton and Al Gore.

Millie is credited as the author of Millie's Book: As Dictated to Barbara Bush which reached #1 on the New York Times bestseller nonfiction list. In 1989, Millie gave birth to a litter of six puppies with the assistance of U.S. Army veterinarian Stephen Caldwell, including Spot Fetcher and Ranger, who became President George H. W. Bush's dog. Ranger died of cancer in May 1993. Spot would later become another presidential pet when George W. Bush moved into the White House.

Millie was portrayed in an episode of Murphy Brown as well as an episode of Wings and Who's The Boss. Millie made also a cameo appearance in The Simpsons episode " Two Bad Neighbors" in a scene where the former President Bush is jogging with some of his new neighbors.

Millie died of pneumonia in 1997 at age 12.

A dog park in Houston, Texas is named after Millie.

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Millie is a 1913 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in The Blue Review in June 1913.

Millie (1931) is a Pre-Code drama film directed by John Francis Dillon from a screenplay by Charles Kenyon and Ralph Morgan, based on a novel of the same name by Donald Henderson Clarke. The film was an independent production by Charles R. Rogers, distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, after their acquisition of Pathé Exchange. It starred Helen Twelvetrees in one of her best roles, with a supporting cast which included Lilyan Tashman, James Hall, Joan Blondell, John Halliday and Anita Louise.