(1) I don’t know if people are making it work better now but it has become more of a trendy thing and you have things like the Thank You group [aid through sales of consumer goods] and Who Gives a Crap [fundraising through toilet paper sales] and all of these other great companies that are really clever and are doing really well.” Even though Biddy Bags closed, it was a launchpad for Jockel to become a social media entrepreneur: cofounding a social media agency, Good Funny Smart.
(2) Sam Jockel, who is based in Brisbane, says she was too far ahead of the trend when, in 2007, she started Biddy Bags – a business that aimed to bring elderly women together to make and sell bags online.
(3) Seldom have I felt my spirits lower, and yet I felt a surge of hope that my pursuit of material wealth had been undone, and so I resolved to live a life more simple and made my way to Kent to do Biddy the favour of asking her to be my wife.
(4) "Meantersay Biddy and I were married yesterday," said Joe.
(5) This is more than retrospective bravado or old-biddy chauvinism of the "young people?
(6) Owen Paterson, the environment secretary who joined 136 Tory MPs in an unofficial rebellion, admitted on Sky News that he had explained his opposition to equal marriage on the grounds that "biddies don't like botties".
(7) When she launched Biddy Bags, she was also looking after a six-week-old baby but managed to give work to six women over five years.
(8) Then one day I heard from Jaggers that my sister had been beaten senseless by an unknown assailant, so I went home to pay my respects to Joe and Biddy.
(9) But I get these old biddies coming in and saying [adopts faltering Old Biddy voice], 'Ooh, I won't be coming back' and I'm, like, good riddance!"
(10) He knows their names: Rowena, Jill, Tina, Biddy, Ivy, Ida, Kate, Kitty.
(11) And that Biddy, the young girl who had come to live with us, was a little bit prettier and posher.
(12) Amongst them were not just one but two letters dating from the 1960’s from Biddy Baxter, the legendary editor of Blue Peter, enclosing his Blue Peter badge.
Fussy
Definition:
(superl) Making a fuss; disposed to make an unnecessary ado about trifles; overnice; fidgety.
Example Sentences:
(1) Infants in the third quartile were fussy at the commencement of the period and became gradually more placid from the fifth week of life.
(2) The results indicate that intra-uterine sounds calm 90 per cent of babies who are fussy or crying but have no evident effect on babies who are awake but merely alert or who are slightly drowsy.
(3) You can't grow bananas in Alaska or broccoli at the equator unless you're willing to expend a lot of money to create a very controlled environment, and even then, it's going to be fussy and painstaking.
(4) He is yet to find somewhere despite being described as not a particularly "fussy buyer".
(5) Individual differences in positive, negative, sociability, and soothability were related to the questionnaire scores of fussy-difficult and unadaptability.
(6) The distribution of spectral energy among four types of infant vocalizations was compared via computerized spectral analyses of "pain-induced," "fussy," and "hungry" cries and "cooing" of 30 2-6-month-old infants.
(7) I just don't like Michelin-starred restaurants that are too fussy.
(8) You couldn’t do that today without calling it grooming, which I suspect the author would see as a piece of fussy editorialising with no place in fiction.
(9) "The display of works of art, for example, is to be fussy about what colour pictures are hung on - at what height they're hung.
(10) Overall 27% of children had febrile (greater than 38 degrees C) reactions, 62% became fussy and 79% had a local reaction.
(11) "Dyson Cinetic cyclones are so efficient at separating microscopic particles that everything gets thrust into the bin, and you can forget about fussy filters.” Ten years' of vacuuming According to Dyson’s testing, its new line of Cinetic cleaners can perform ten years’ worth of vacuum cleaning without needing to replace or wash their filters, which equates to sucking up two tonnes of dust.
(12) I inform them that I will be turning up with a set of index cards on which I have jotted down key points, but will not be boring my audience to tears with fiddly slides consisting of flying text, fussy fonts or photo montages.
(13) Parents were advised to seek prompt attention if symptoms of earache, fussiness, or fever recurred at any time during the 30-day study period.
(14) Analyses showed that female infants who were unable to complete the habituation task were reported as being more fussy and unadaptable.
(15) One famous product was Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup , a morphine and alcohol concoction that was marketed to parents of fussy children as a “perfectly harmless and pleasant” way to produce a “natural quiet sleep, by relieving the child from pain”.
(16) The remark catches his combination of asceticism and elegance: an American journalist once described him as "a haute-couture Gandalf", a wizard who is a little too fussy about his wardrobe.
(17) Visual inspection indicated that "pain-induced" cries could be differentiated from "fussy" and "hungry" cries and that "cooing" could be differentiated from all cries on the bases of (1) the relative amplitude levels of the high-frequency components; (2) the average fundamental frequency; and (3) the overall spectral energy levels.
(18) NOFT infants were found to be more fussy, demanding, and unsociable.
(19) It is concluded that prophylactic acetaminophen as given in this study had a moderating effect on fever, pain, and fussiness after diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and pertussis immunization.
(20) In the latter, he played Martin Bryce, a fussy busybody unusually preoccupied with law and order.