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biddy

noun

Definition of biddy

as in housekeeper

a female domestic servant The mansion was formerly owned by a series of old-line families that relied on biddies to maintain it.

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Recent Examples of biddy The key figure turns out to be Alex’s mysterious Aunt Gladys, played in full psycho-biddy drag by Amy Madigan. — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2025 Either the biddy or the hound would be trampled ’neath Beetle Bailey’s hooves. — Gary Gulman, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2023

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Everyone from the front-desk employees to the housekeepers to the yoga instructors were helpful and attentive.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
By tightening those subplots, the series focuses more by design on exploring the inner lives of Cathy, Adam and Lee (Hoon Lee) — the Trask’s cook and housekeeper who becomes a second parent of sorts to Charles’ twin boys, Cal and Aron.

— Max Gao, Variety, 4 Oct. 2026

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This is the kind of show where an opulent tea party is dramatized not just by many different plates of fancy pastries, fancy wreaths and lots of furniture, but by having all that stuff carted in by a dozen or so butlers, maids and other servants.

— Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 1 Oct. 2026
Loyal Maids in Extravagant Mansions While Solana is a disorderly servant, Clarita reflects the trope of the loyal maid of the higher class, the societal expectation in the region.

— Damaly Gonzalez, ARTnews.com, 30 Sep. 2026

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