(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.
Gossipy
Definition:
(a.) Full of, or given to, gossip.
Example Sentences:
(1) In his previous job, as BBC Vision director, he made a generally favourable impression on media reporters, especially those from papers hostile to the corporation, for his willingness to attend friendly and gossipy dinners without being chaperoned by BBC minders.
(2) Rakoff's version of this story, however, comes with an extra, gossipy twist – particularly for those readers who move in New York media circles.
(3) Weekend newspaper supplements retailed gossipy accounts of how The Satanic Verses had failed to win the Booker prize, with malicious claims regarding Rushdie's tantrums when this happened.
(4) McBride confessed in the emails that most of the stories were "gossipy and intended to destabilised the Tories", according to the News of World, and admitted using "a bit of poetic licence".
(5) Davis gets on well with journalists: he is engaging, not pompous, open to ideas and gossipy, as well as – adds someone who knows him well – completely ruthless and entirely devoted to the cause of David Davis .
(6) However, instead of regarding Dr Kelly's mention of Mr Campbell as a "revelation", Watts dismissed it as "a gossipy aside comment".
(7) They include serious volumes such as Journey of the Reforms, the best-selling memoirs of Zhao Ziyang , the high-ranking reformist official who was imprisoned after the Tiananmen protests; as well as gossipy tomes such as The Secret Deals Between Xi Jinping and Bo Xilai , a fast read with few reliable facts.
(8) Her role The bluestocking who missed the story, or the sober Newsnight science editor who carefully chose not to report what she dismissed as a "gossipy aside" - both views held of Susan Watts, the second BBC journalist thrust into the limelight at the Hutton inquiry.
(9) But the real spiritual argument happens in how her weirdly cut and twisting narratives unfold: a death foretold long before a person's story has even started, as in The Driver's Seat (1970) or The Hothouse by the East River (1973); the interest in how superstition and other forms of false consciousness precipitate evil actions, as in The Bachelors (1960) or The Girls of Slender Means (1963); the way an innocuous-looking catchphrase, like Miss Jean Brodie's famous "crème de la crème", attains a mysteriously sacramental force by dint of a rhythmic repetition, half-gossipy, half-incantatory in intent.
(10) Too full of ideas to sleep, he started work on a new film or novel or play – or all at the same time – at 5am, ending in time for long gossipy lunches with friends and family, followed by theatre and parties in London.
(11) Dinsey started using the site OpenDiary from the late 90s onwards, and then moved on to MSN Spaces in 2004, writing a gossipy blog about who was kissing whom at school.
(12) The five booksellers – including a British and a Swedish national – had been linked to the same Hong Kong publisher and bookshop that specialised in gossipy works on the private lives and power struggles of China’s Communist party leaders.
(13) That’s why you see these artists become a tabloid regular and then become artistically and musically irrelevant, because they let [gossipy websites] stifle them.
(14) Some are gossipy and gonzo, like Bob Carr’s magnificently picaresque romp through the foreign affairs portfolio published earlier this year.
(15) Sociable, gossipy São Paulo crackles with life and noise and is much friendlier than might be expected: this is a city of immigrants, and foreigners are welcome.
(16) Sorkin wrote, after weeks of reporting the gossipy, juicy details of the hacked emails, the media finally “got serious”.
(17) He was gossipy, bitchy and very witty – fun to be around but also a huge snob.
(18) And yet Denton always loved gossipy details, as with his obvious joy at discovering that Barings rogue trader Nick Leeson used superman as his computer password.
(19) Thiel notoriously funded a lawsuit against the website Gawker in effort to shut the gossipy blog down.
(20) Another far less substantiated rumour concerns Judi Dench, with Big Shiny Robot's Full of Sith podcast claiming she's being considered for the role of Mon Mothma, a founder of the Rebel Alliance – the gossipy Latino Review also hinted at her casting.