biddy

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “-- Do you use Google's 411 service and love the 'biddy' sound it makes?”

  Coffee Break: November 12

• “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

• “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.”

  Simon & Schuster: Roseanne Archy

• “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.”

  The Wall Street Journal: An Artifact of Indulgence From Bernard Herrmann

• “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.”

  Simon & Schuster: Amaryllis in Blueberry

• “I can tell by your obvious ignorance of animal behavior, wild animals (hint, fawns don't run away from approaching threats, they hide) and your excessive use of handwringing emotion-laden hyperbole (vis "nasty old biddy" and, of course, the totally predictable absurd reference to nazis) Perhaps you should run off and have a good cry.”

  Elderly Women Charged With Beating Fawn To Death

• “CLEAR case of animal cruelty .. lock the old biddy up!!!!!”

  Elderly Women Charged With Beating Fawn To Death

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