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old biddy



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Judi Dench plays an old biddy accused of spilling Britain’s state secrets in director Trevor Nunn’s fact-based 2018 espionage drama “Red Joan.”

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 24, 2020

“Good riddance, I say,” one old biddy curses the missing barmaid.

From New York Times Mar. 2, 2018

Unknown to McIver, both Karen and the sanitarium's old biddy of a business manager have ordered separate sets of draperies on their own.

From Time Magazine Archive

And it might embarrass Charlie to have his sister clucking over him like an old biddy hen.

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson

“That mountain lion had as much right to his life as that sour old biddy does to hers,” he said.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls




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