BIDDY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does biddy mean? 

• BIDDY (noun)
  The noun BIDDY has 2 senses:

1. adult female chicken

2. young bird especially of domestic fowl

  Familiarity information: BIDDY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BIDDY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Adult female chicken

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

biddy; hen

Hypernyms ("biddy" is a kind of...):

chicken; Gallus gallus (a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "biddy"):

cackler (a hen that has just laid an egg and emits a shrill squawk)

brood hen; broody; broody hen; setting hen; sitter (a domestic hen ready to brood)

mother hen (a hen with chicks)

layer (a hen that lays eggs)

pullet (young hen usually less than a year old)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Young bird especially of domestic fowl

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

biddy; chick

Hypernyms ("biddy" is a kind of...):

young bird (a bird that is still young)

chicken; Gallus gallus (a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl)

 Context examples 

The very cattle looked more tranquil than ours, as they stood knee-deep in clover, and the hens had a contented cluck, as if they never got nervous like Yankee biddies.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)