biddy

Examples

• All

• The children have scattered like biddies, and here I am looking back at a wide, smiling veranda that makes my house look like a plantation house.

  Fiction book (2002)

• The farmer raised a few biddies in the coop for fresh eggs.

• She watched the biddies peck at the ground in search of food.

• After a week, the little biddies began to grow their feathers.

Synonyms

C

chick

vsbiddy

69 1.0

A very young bird, especially a newly hatched chicken

is more general for young birds rather than only newly hatched ones

B

baby bird

vsbiddy

14 1.0

A very young bird without enough feathers to fly or leave the nest

is broader and includes any young domestic fowl not only nestlings

Y

young bird

vsbiddy

2 1.2

A baby bird that is not yet an adult

is focused especially on domestic juveniles rather than all species

C

chickie

vsbiddy

• Informal

2 8.2

A very young chicken that is small and soft

is used in neutral speech rather than as an affectionate informal name

P

pullet

vsbiddy

• Specialized

1 8.6

A young hen less than a year old that is not fully grown

is not limited by sex and applies to young birds of either sex

C

chicky

vsbiddy

1 8.4

A very young chicken or a small child called in a loving way

is restricted to birds as a young animal rather than human nickname

B

biddie

vsbiddy

• Archaic

1 6.9

A young chicken kept on a farm

is identical in meaning but differs as an alternate spelling or form

P

poult

vsbiddy

• Specialized

1 9.2

A young farm bird like a chicken or turkey that is not yet full grown

is more general and does not single out species like turkey

Idioms

C

to call someone a biddy

• Slur

9.9

Say that an older woman is foolish or annoying in a mean way

Compounds

O

old biddy

• Slur

6 9.9

An unpleasant older woman who is fussy and nosy

How Mature

hen

95 1.0

biddy

• Informal

1 9.0

chick

69 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology