Wednesday 23 February 2011

Word of the Day

Today brought to you from a random flicking through Stephen Schieber's book Being Normal. And what a doozy. A Hyphenated word for the first Word of the day!

Biddy-Woman

From this I'm guessing something along the lines of the old biddy. The one with the hair in curlers, net ontop to keep the hair thieves out. The pinny on, scrubbing the doorstep. Some 1970's throwback to the 40's when people actually cared that their steps were clean. Before they got bombed. And started talking about the war while paying for food with luncheon vouchers. Somewhere, she'll have one of those plastic strip curtains on a doorway to keep the flies out of the front room that noone ever sits in. Is she lonely? Is she happy? Bet that step's spotless.