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middy

[ UK /mˈɪdi/ ]
NOUN
  1. blouse with a sailor collar

How To Use middy In A Sentence

  • Although no average cake would have held the candles to which Miss Mercy's birthdays entitled her, she was given to "middy" blouses and pink sweaters. The Dude Wrangler
  • All ready for letting fall, sir," the middy stationed in the foretop was the first to sing out. Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant
  • Stumpie's an awfu 'peppery budy, an' though the Smith leuch when he made his joke at the tailor's precentin ', Mertin got as raised as a wasp, and he yattered back -- "You'll maybe be better aff i' the ither place, wi 'your auld horse shune an' your smiddy reek, ye auld acowder ---- My Man Sandy
  • Ness looked up at the small robot as she straightened the red tie in front of her middy blouse.
  • Their great place of congregating is still some country smiddy, which is also their frequent meeting-place when bent on black-fishing. Auld Licht Idylls
  • _Fatima_, the first swab, as I told you, got an ugly scrape in the leg that prevented him from moving; so when the second lieutenant was put in charge of the dhow to take her up to Zanzibar, I was the only responsible man the captain could think of to send cruising with the pinnace, as the middy was a harum-scarum youngster, who hadn't got thought enough, and neither the boatswain nor Chips could be taken away from their duties without perhaps the ship suffering. The Penang Pirate and, The Lost Pinnace
  • At a place called "Dick's Tree," not far from Longtown, there still stands the "smiddy" where lived the blacksmith who had the honour of knocking off Kinmont Willie's fetters. Stories of the Border Marches
  • There on the beds lay five complete riding suits: divided skirts of khaki, "middy" blouses of a cooler material, and soft Panama hats, each wound with a blue scarf and finished with a smart bow. Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party
  • If it is anything like the place in my neck of the woods, it would be full of booners drinking port out of middy glasses.
  • The girls wore gray sweaters or maroon blazers over their white middy blouses.
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