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词组 biddy
释义 biddy
noun
an old woman, usually one prone to complain and fuss US, 1938
The dominant sense of the term in the US, with the older sense of a “young woman” unknown.
  • Now then ... bring a biddy up to date on your personal life. — San Francisco Examiner, p. 14, 8 January 1946
  • “Those old welfare biddies will find her a fine family to live with.” — Chester Himes, The Real Cool Killers, p. 45, 1959
  • The captain whispered in my ear: “Don’t make any dramatic gestures to those biddies or I’ll crease your head with this club.” — Lenny Bruce, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People, p. 70, 1965
  • Have you seen the way those old biddies look at you when we walk into the dining room? — Armistead Maupin, Further Tales of the City, p. 195, 1982
  • But when his wife returned and heard about this bet from the biddies at the bridge club, she would kill him. — Jimmy Buffett, Tales from Margaritaville, p. 120, 1989
  • When Bobbie questioned Fin about the age of all the fun-loving fogies, coots, geezers, codgers, duffers and biddies she’d met in the saloon, he didn’t know how to tell her that the oldest fossil in the joint wasn’t fifteen years his senior. — Joseph Wambaugh, Finnegan’s Week, p. 230, 1993
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