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Discover Ludwig"biddy" is a perfectly acceptable and usable word in written English
It is an informal term for a young child or small animal, and is usually used in a jocular or affectionately humorous manner. For example: "We finally got a new puppy, and our biddy is already starting to terrorize the house with all his puppy energy!"
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Jay Archer, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, introduced "biddy" basketball in 1950 for boys and girls under 12 years of age, the court and equipment being adjusted for size.
He set up mission control in the kitchen of an elementary school, where the cooks, led by a redoubtable biddy called Alice, looked about as pleased to have him in their midst as they might a Mexican bird-eating spider.
How empowering, to know that you won your job not on your own merit but because the self-confessed hideously white men at the BBC top table decided that they could keep their own enclave completely intact by sidelining you into situations which became vacant when they did the humiliating math that two incoming ethnics equalled one outgoing old biddy.
But as far as "biddy" — you do not want to call Alma that, I don't think.
A "motherly old biddy" sits on a nest of eggs.
She was really a beat biddy, trampish-looking and pure rebbish; and since I'd already lost my live-wire edge, I wondered what the hell I'd seen in her in the first place.
Some old biddy pushed her nose into a pastry".
In a truth-or-dare game, after taking a slug of truth juice called Acrimonium, the old biddy confesses to wanting a "total body makeover".
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"Yum, bum, biddy-biddy bum," said my father.
"Yum, bum, biddy-biddy bum," he would sing.
Both Biddys have backgrounds in acting, but Mr. Biddy was a bit torn about starting his son down that career path.
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