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middy

[ UK /mˈɪdi/ ]
NOUN
  1. blouse with a sailor collar

How To Use middy In A Sentence

  • An image of my middy blouse hanging alone on the clotheslines outside our kitchen window, buffeted by the wind, came to mind.
  • It's also illegal to charge more for bottled water than a middy of beer or a glass of wine.
  • The grub camp, with cook-shed attached, stood in the middle of the clearing; at a little distance was the sleeping camp with the office built against it, and about a hundred yards away on the other side of the clearing stood the stables, and near them the smiddy. The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories
  • News o him yon muckle callant, whistlin at the smiddy door Gillie Mor
  • I'd come in with a middy of light and he touched his glass to mine.
  • Any one of these forges would have been a respectable "smiddy" in a country village. The Iron Horse
  • Jerome, the youngest of the whole family, the "middy," as Napoleon liked to call him, had been placed in the navy, in which profession he passed as having distinguished himself, after leaving his admiral in rather a peculiar manner, by attacking an English convoy, and eventually escaping the English by running into the port of Concarneau, believed to be inaccessible. Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
  • Given this culture, the delight of abandoning long skirts and dresses, corsets and tight waists, and high button shoes for the bloomers, middy blouses, and comfortable walking shoes of camp was a welcomed liberty.
  • They were big "ironstone" bowls the size of beer schooners, such as we used to see pictured at "Schmiddy's Place," with the legend, "Largest In The City, 5c. The Iron Puddler
  • Some one among the crew was humming the refrain of the old anchor-hoisting song, "Le Chien d'Or -- I love your Daughter;" a melody that has haunted the River St. Lawrence since the day when his comrades forcibly carried off Admiral Nelson, then a "middy," from the wiles and fascinations of the daughter of the landlord of "Le Chien d'Or. "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders
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