How To Use Biddy In A Sentence
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After allowing my pocket to be filled with “notions” by the generous “Biddy,” I took leave of Miss Kenjins, who is good, clever, and agreeable enough to redeem the young-ladyhood of the island — nor was there enough of pleasant promise for the future to compensate for the regret I felt at leaving those who had received a stranger with such kindness and hospitality.
The Englishwoman in America
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Many should also find some amusement in the British houseguest who breastfeeds her 25-year-old son and likes to offer up her "biddy" to anyone who might require it.
The Trades
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My Biddy wasn't one of the kind that dilly-dallies or shilly-shallies: she pounces on the child like a hawk on a chicken, stops its mouth so it could n't as much as peep, and carries it into a wood near by and hides till dark.
Stories of Many Lands
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The old biddy had known what she was talking about, it was just that other people didn't have the ability to understand her any more.
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People are quite shocked when they realise I'm a little old biddy with quite a lot of ill health, because I don't come over like that.
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Dark political funkster Gil Scott-Heron is doing two shows at Biddy Mulligan's tonight, at
Chicago Reader
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In Biddya, close to the Israeli settlement of Ariel and the industrial zone of Brukin, the women's group, Women for Life (WfL), and the student organization called Flowers Against the Occupation both see that survival and thriving is also part of the agenda of non-violent resistance.
Thursdays with my sisters
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I have a very unphilosophical mind and often became impatient with the discussions George and Biddy had, though I did share their enthusiasm for poetry. […]
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How long does child of normal circumstance biddy come menstruation?
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Musha, musha, 'tis not the likes o 'that comes to Biddy Joyce ivery day, no, nor to no one else neither in these parts!
The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911
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Some of the comic interludes had more pep—in "Being Small," a boy slave jauntily describes how he hides under his master's house and listens as the master reads the newspaper out loud—but others, like "I Listen," in which a self-described "old biddy" pie maker spies on her Union soldier customers, just fell flat.
An Artifact of Indulgence From Bernard Herrmann
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I am not this little old biddy sitting at home with nothing better to do.
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After learning from Going like Sixty that a biddy is a chicken, I invite you to write your first 50 words on the topic “biddy” in a comment.
Biddy « First 50 Words – Writing Prompts
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When I first read it, I saw all the way to my grave in the character of Madame de Farge, the old biddy who silently weaves the code of revolution into the blankets she crochets.
Roseanne Archy
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Before your heart is stricken and you become severly sickened check with your local wiccan to know a biddy is a chicken. on May 29, 2007 at 12:49 pm | Reply first 50
Giddy « First 50 Words – Writing Prompts
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And while my identification skills are at the "purple one with yellow stripes" level, I do also enjoy the evocative names: three-stripe fusilier, diagonal-banded sweetlips, filamented flake, oblong silver biddy and freckled goatfish, not to mention the charming category of odd-shaped bottom dwellers.
Dive Time
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We grant the "poppet;" we concede the "chickabiddy;" and then sternly inquire if an excess of loyalty is to impugn the reason of the most ratiocinative editor?
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 11, 1841
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I sound like an old biddy writing this but I think we lose something when interactions are reduced in quality. ‘Manners’ evolved for good purpose.
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An 'she gets a mad streak along o' that pritty crathur," said Mrs. Biddy, as she went down-stairs, "she desarves the warm bating she'll get from her own mother at home.
Live to be Useful or, The Story of Annie Lee and her Irish Nurse
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Biddy, in her neat little black dress, was busy serving food.
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‘And I don't care who hears me,’ the old biddy shamelessly adds.
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Betty, the editor's housemaid, has given warning, declaring that she cannot live with any gentleman who insists upon taking her in his arms, and tossing her up and down as if she was no more than a baby; at the same time making a chirruping noise with his mouth, and calling her "poppet" and "chickabiddy.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 11, 1841
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Bartle Meegan's throath, that you and Biddy Martin wor the two portliest weemen that comes into the chapel.
Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver; The Geography Of An Irish Oath; The Lianhan Shee Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three
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Everyone I asked knew an old biddy who had bought the pharmaceutical company in 1948 and still had it.
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One was of pretty pink glazed calico and of some other shiny stuff called 'chintz' -- white, with tiny lines of different colours; she also bought some red cotton velvet and neat-looking white spotted muslin, and several yards of very narrow lace of a very small and dainty pattern, and other things, all of which interested Alie very much indeed, though after a while Biddy got tired of looking on, and went and stood at the doorway of the shop.
The Rectory Children
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And Mary Catherine is what that old biddy, Clara of the Bowed Legs and Beehive her hair, who lives in the cottage across the path, calls a navel gazer.
Amaryllis in Blueberry
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This masterpiece is the work of Australian illustrator Biddy Maroney.
Boing Boing
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The steep, descending sides are very soft and sodden, supporting a scanty growth of vegetation, including the small burr known as the "biddy-bid.
The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
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No," said Biddy, with a sidelong glance that made her look almost minxish.
Ishmael
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May 20, 2010 at 9:03 am teh bloo bloo eyes, adn teh iddy biddy pink noes, adn teh iddle pinkey toe-pads…! eeep!
RAMEN KITEH - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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Of course I've heard the word biddy before, but when I hear it I think of old ladies who are a little bit cranky.
Archive 2009-04-01
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Watch out for the old biddy in the gray dress walking around town.
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Biddy, in her neat little black dress, was busy serving food.
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-- Do you use Google's 411 service and love the 'biddy' sound it makes?
Coffee Break: November 12
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Soon afterwards, Biddy, Joe, and I, had a cold dinner together; but we dined in the best parlor, not in the old kitchen, and Joe was so exceedingly particular what he did with his knife and fork and the saltcellar and what not, that there was great restraint upon us.
Great Expectations
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I think you would always improve, Biddy, under any circumstances.
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I am not this little old biddy sitting at home with nothing better to do.
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Going outside, I found the servant had neglected to open the 'bulkhead' door, as usual, and my wise little biddy had concluded to go down-cellar through the kitchen.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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Why fly to Biddy Salamander and Bulkabra, when the Queen of Beauty and Count D'Orsay have equally urgent claims on the attention and sympathies of the civiliser?
Punch, or the London Charivari. Volume 1, July 31, 1841
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Joel eavesdropped on Dubiddy's conversation -- I had been marked out as a troublemaker.
NOTHING TO WEAR AND NOWHERE TO HIDE: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
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He supposed he'd have to consult that formidable biddy at the desk.
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He said, ‘Biddy Early’s cure that you heard of, between the two wheels of Ballylee, it was the moss on the water of the millstream.
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