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Quotation dates: 1705-1721, 1838-1923
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BEDDY, BEDDIE, adj.
1. Asking for, desirous of strange things; greedy, covetous.Sc. 1721 J. Kelly Proverbs 75:
Breeding wives are aye beddie. (Note, covetous of some silly things.)Uls. 1880 W. H. Patterson Gl. Ant. and Dwn.:
"You're very beddy," saucy at one's food, also greedy, covetous.
2. Forward, meddling, rude.Lnk. 1838 J. Morrison M'Ilwham Papers Letter i. 11:
He's a beddy body, wi' a terrible gift o' the gab.Uls. 1923 J. Logan Ulster in the X-Rays, (2nd ed.) vi.:
I'll larn ye not to be beddy.
†3. Eager to seize prey.Sc. a.1706 W. Hamilton Bonny Heck in J. Watson Choice Collection (1869) 70:
But if my Puppies ance were ready, . . . They'l be baith Cliver, Keen, and Beddy.
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