biddy

Other forms of biddy

plural

biddies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about biddy

What does biddy mean?

biddy means "adult female chicken". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in biddy?

biddy has 2 syllables: bid-dy. The stress falls on "bid". In IPA it is /ˈbɪdi/.

What is another word for biddy?

Close synonyms include hen, chick. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is biddy a common word?

biddy is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.