(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.
Middy
Definition:
(n.) A colloquial abbreviation of midshipman.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sometimes it’s only when we see our clothes on someone else that we realise that it’s time to move on, whether it’s realising how Sloaney Issa dresses actually are when Kate Middy wore them or marvelling at how disgusting most designer clothes are when Kim Kardashian wears them.