Definition of "biddy"

biddy¹

/ˈbɪdi/

noun
plural biddies
1. (derogatory) A woman, especially an old woman; especially one regarded as fussy or mean or a gossipy busybody.
  Quotations
  That Mich drag Loretta sent me about 10 pictures of her so I wouldn't think her a "decrepit old lady." But too bad—she looked like someone's biddy aunt.
  1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
2. (uncommon) An attractive girl.
3. (archaic, colloquial) An Irish maidservant.
4. (by extension, derogatory) An Irishwoman.
5. A name used in calling a hen or chicken, often as "biddy-biddy-biddy".
  Quotations
  Ay, biddy, come with me.
  c. 1601–1602, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, act 3, scene 4, line 115
  "Well, we'll see about it by and by," said Farmer Brown's boy. "There's the breakfast bell, and I haven't fed the biddies yet."
  1915, Thornton W. Burgess, chapter XI, in The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company
6. breasts (when used in the phrase "tig biddies" derived from "big tiddies")
  Quotations
  It ain't like you ain't never seen these tig ole biddies before.
  2005 Rejected: You Never Know What You're Gonna Get - Page 29

biddy²

/ˈbɪdi/

noun
plural biddies
1. (US) Alternative spelling of bitty.
  Quotations
  “Was it in buckets or them little biddy cans?”
  1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 210