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Biddy   /bˈɪdi/   Listen
Biddy

noun
1.
Adult female chicken.  Synonym: hen.
2.
Young bird especially of domestic fowl.  Synonym: chick.






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"Biddy" Quotes from Famous Books



... the other day about his Catholic nonsense, and saying that he would not trust a Papist, Florian took the part of Pat Carroll. If there be a man about the place who would do a base turn to father, it's Pat Carroll. Now I know that Flory was down near the lough yesterday afternoon. Biddy Ryan saw him. If he went on he must have ...
— The Landleaguers • Anthony Trollope

... calling for tea," said Prudence. "Come on quick; I'm as hungry as a hunter, and Biddy said she would make some damper, because we ...
— The Happy Adventurers • Lydia Miller Middleton

... character, but of the sort nobody is anxious to carry in his pocket as a wedge by which to enter good, genteel society. "Character," says a leading mind, "is every thing." Quite true; and if of the right sort, will take a man speedily to the noose. Biddy can get the most stunning of characters at the first corner for half a week's wages or—stealings. As a general thing, I don't believe in characters, and for the reason that a large portion of my acquaintances—I go ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 2, April 9, 1870 • Various

... To. I biddy, come with me. What man, tis not for grauity to play at cherrie-pit with sathan Hang ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare

... on the premises. Stand up, you rascal. What have you done with the pewter? Ah, crushed out of all shape and use. That's what Molly Luff sed of her new bonnet when she sat down on it—Lawk, a biddy! Who'd ...
— The Broom-Squire • S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

... an old-time affectionate greeting. He tried to persuade himself that the light was getting weak, but looking around he could distinguish small objects on the other side of the river, and he recognized old Biddy Gale coming down to the well at the bottom of her ...
— Sea-Dogs All! - A Tale of Forest and Sea • Tom Bevan

... Biddy dear—" And here he paused a while To fringe his words the merest mite With something of a smile— A smile that found its image In a face of beauteous mold, Whose liquid eyes were peeping From ...
— Poems Teachers Ask For • Various

... looked round, I was reminded of a show I once saw at the Museum,—the Sleeping Beauty, I think they called it. The old man's sudden breaking out in this way turned every face towards him, and each kept his posture as if changed to stone. Our Celtic Bridget, or Biddy, is not a foolish fat scullion to burst out crying for a sentiment. She is of the serviceable, red-handed, broad-and-high-shouldered type; one of those imported female servants who are known in public by their amorphous style of person, their stoop forwards, and ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, March, 1858 • Various

... tug of war. The young wife becomes a mother, and while she is retired to her chamber, blundering Biddy rusts the elegant knives, or takes off the ivory handles by soaking in hot water; the silver is washed in greasy soapsuds, and refreshed now and then with a thump, which cocks the nose of the teapot ...
— Household Papers and Stories • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... Biddy, or Eily Joyce; really I cannot be sure; every one in that part of the world is either Eily or Biddy, and Joyce is the surname of half the population. She was a vain girl, I assure you; no beauty in her first season thought more ...
— The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 • Various

... and lying for dead, and I don't doubt but it's all over with her by this time." "Mercy on us all," says I; "how was it?" "The jaunting car it was that ran away with her," says Judy. "I was coming home that same time from Biddy M'Guggin's marriage, and a great crowd of people too upon the road, coming from the fair of Crookaghnawaturgh, and I sees a jaunting car standing in the middle of the road, and with the two wheels off and all tattered. 'What's this?' says I. 'Didn't ...
— Tales and Novels, Vol. IV • Maria Edgeworth

... with that biddy, Wun Sing! I wish 't Ma Babcock had her in our hennery, up-mounting. What's wrong with her, ...
— Dorothy on a Ranch • Evelyn Raymond

... Field explained she had no one to go after them. "I'd have shot them for you if you had advised me you wanted chickens killed." "Chickens killed?" repeated both Pearl and Aunt Tillie, "Well, I'd like to see you or anyone else kill our chickens. Why, there's Betty, Biddy, Snooks, Dick and Kelly; they're just like humans. You don't imagine for a moment we will kill any of our chickens, do you?" And Alfred bought chickens for the ...
— Watch Yourself Go By • Al. G. Field



Words linked to "Biddy" :   pullet, chicken, broody, brood hen, sitter, cackler, young bird, broody hen, Gallus gallus, mother hen, setting hen, layer



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