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- noun nautical, slang a
midshipman
Etymologies
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Examples
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Spend some time looking at which political figures (bloggers, activists, politicians) are leading in this "middie" category and you'll discover that, indeed, the Right is ahead.
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Spend some time looking at which political figures (bloggers, activists, politicians) are leading in this "middie" category and you'll discover that, indeed, the Right is ahead.
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Tom Fairlie, M'Hearty, one "middie," and bold Captain Butler, all good men and true; and the servant who waited at table was one to be trusted.
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"I'm making a little 'middie', a drop waist dress for Mildred," said Cynda Galikin, costume designer for Stephens College's "Ah, Wilderness!" showing.
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And to be clear the reason class standing should not be used as a gauge of "intelligence" is that every cadet and middie have to meet a very high bar for admission-Any cadet that gets in is intelligent.
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Aly Wagner should've been put in attacking middie so she could create in the attacking third.
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He came back in the middie of the afternoon and laughed a rather half-hearted laugh at the excellent Mandy's comment upon his jaded appearance.
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The big French middie who had tripped the lad stepped forward.
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"Aye, aye! we seen that before," put in his companion, a buttoned middie of eighteen, innocent of beard.
Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death
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Miss Sandus (she gave you her word for it) was seventy-four; -- and indeed (so are the generations linked), her father had been a middie with Nelson at Trafalgar, and a lieutenant aboard the
john commented on the word middie
Slang for midfielder in lacrosse; also spelled middy.
May 26, 2009