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Meanings of middy in English

Portuguese
marujo
Catalan
camisa marinera
Spanish
blusa holgada

Blouse with a sailor collar.

marujo
Synonyms
Examples for "middy blouse"
Examples for "middy blouse"
1
She wore a simple middy blouse and a well-made blue skirt.
The Purple Heights
2
She folded the last middy blouse neatly into a wicker suitcase.
Keineth
3
I'll wager Rebecca never wore a middy blouse or carried a tin milk-can!
Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party
4
He put that jumping grasshopper Aunt Polly sent him in my middy blouse pocket.
Four Little Blossoms on Apple Tree Island
5
But Peggy, joining them in middy blouse and bloomers, reassured her in an excited whisper.
Keineth
Usage of middy in English
1
The middy found the two quartermasters, who boarded in the same house.
Within The Enemy's Lines
2
Amid noisy, heartfelt cheering the middy delegation climbed aboard the incoming train.
Dick Prescott's Fourth Year at West Point / Or, Ready to Drop th...
3
A middy's life was no child's play in those days, was it?
Adventures in Many Lands
4
She wore a simple middy blouse and a well-made blue skirt.
The Purple Heights
5
She folded the last middy blouse neatly into a wicker suitcase.
Keineth
6
The middy of the period, however, was half imp, half hero.
Deeds that Won the Empire / Historic Battle Scenes
7
Little Huddart, the middy, died a death which is worth many inglorious years.
The Great Boer War
8
I'll wager Rebecca never wore a middy blouse or carried a tin milk-can!
Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party
9
They all wore middy blouses in the picture and Peggy and Alice were barefooted.
Keineth
10
He put that jumping grasshopper Aunt Polly sent him in my middy blouse pocket.
Four Little Blossoms on Apple Tree Island
11
Woe unto the "middy" who that night went forward of the booms.
White Jacket; Or, The World on a Man-of-War
12
Only with Mr. Glover and with a stupid little middy.
Magnum Bonum; Or, Mother Carey's Brood
13
Not your signals middy-he'sacting lieutenant, if you need one.
In the King's name
14
I'm hoping that some day I fight under that gallant middy, cried the sailor.
Dave Darrin's Second Year at Annapolis / Or, Two Midshipmen as N...
15
But Peggy, joining them in middy blouse and bloomers, reassured her in an excited whisper.
Keineth
16
I began as a middy in the American war of 1812, that nobody remembers now.
Lady Rose's Daughter
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Translations for middy
Portuguese
marujo
Middy through the time
Middy across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common