biddy
nounEtymology From the phrase "tig biddies", derived from "big tiddies".
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Internet, In plural Breasts.
- It ain't like you ain't never seen these tig ole biddies before.2005 Rejected: You Never Know What You're Gonna Get - Page 29
biddy
noun/ˈbɪdi/
Etymology Derived from Biddy, diminutive form of Bridget. It became a generic name for an Irish maid (US), and then for an old woman.
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Derogatory A woman, especially an old woman; especially one regarded as fussy or mean or a gossipy busybody.
- 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure That Mich drag Loretta sent me about 10 pictures of her so I wouldn't think her a "decrepit old lady." But too bad—she looked like someone's biddy aunt.
- After working a 65 hour week, men would spend their whole paycheck in saloons, drink the whole weekend, and ignore the needs of their families. The overwhelming participation of women in the [temperance] movement was prompted by motives of self preservation […] It is no accident that male historians have chosen to present these women as crazed biddies in an attempt to deny the real reason for their concern.1978 December 23, Michael Bronski, “Notes and Thoughts by One Gay Man on Pornography and Censorship”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 22, page 11:
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Uncommon An attractive girl.
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Archaic, Colloquial An Irish maidservant.
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Broadly, Derogatory An Irishwoman.
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A name used in calling a hen or chicken, often as "biddy-biddy-biddy".
- Ay, biddy, come with me.c. 1601–1602, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, act 3, scene 4, line 115:
- "Well, we'll see about it by and by," said Farmer Brown's boy. "There's the breakfast bell, and I haven't fed the biddies yet."1915, Thornton W. Burgess, chapter XI, in The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company:
- Derived terms
- psycho-biddy, red biddy